What does Nomad do for you, exactly? I've always wanted to try it out, but I never really got how it works. It runs containers, right? Does it also do networking, volumes, and the other things Compose does?
What I like about Nomad is that it allows scheduling non-containerized workloads too. What it "does" for me is that it gives me a declarative language to specify the workloads, has a nice web UI to keep track of the workloads and allows such handy features as looking at the logs or exec'ing into the container from the web UI, amongst other things. Haven't used advanced networking or volumes yet though.
There's different kind of workloads, I use Docker containers the most, but jobs can also run on a system-level, there's also different types of operating modes, some jobs can be scheduled like cron, where other jobs just exposes a port and wants to be registered in Consuls service-mesh.
A job can also consist of multiple subtasks, an example could be nginx + django/rails subtasks that will be deployed together.