# HashiCorp Nomad Reviews **Vendor:** HashiCorp **Category:** [Container Orchestration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/container-orchestration) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About HashiCorp Nomad Nomad is a flexible workload orchestrator that enables an organization to easily deploy and manage any containerized or legacy application using a single, unified workflow. Nomad can run a diverse workload of Docker, non-containerized, microservice, and batch applications. Nomad enables developers to use declarative infrastructure-as-code for deploying applications. Nomad uses bin packing to efficiently schedule jobs and optimize for resource utilization. Nomad is supported on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Nomad is widely adopted and used in production by PagerDuty, Target, Citadel, Trivago, SAP, Pandora, Roblox, eBay, Deluxe Entertainment, and more. ## HashiCorp Nomad Reviews ### 1. Best Orchestration and management tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2023 **What do you like best about HashiCorp Nomad?** It is opensource, provides on prem and on cloud flexibility. Container orchestration. **What do you dislike about HashiCorp Nomad?** not as good as k8 , service etc are not advanced **What problems is HashiCorp Nomad solving and how is that benefiting you?** orchestration of containers ### 2. Nomad Review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mohnish t. | Site Reliability Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2022 **What do you like best about HashiCorp Nomad?** Nomad is cluster management works both with on-prem and cloud applications, Nomad also acts as scheduler jobs, whereas Jenkins is CI/CD, this is a hasicorp tool. **What do you dislike about HashiCorp Nomad?** This is not great now with Kubernetes having inbuilt containers with all hosts into it and most companies are opting out to Kubernetes compare to Nomad, this is only better for scheduling jobs **What problems is HashiCorp Nomad solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a good scheduler and batch jobs, this also supports legacy and container-based applications, but more companies are moving out of Nomad, it is useful for only limited applications ### 3. A simple and Perfect Deployment tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhilash P. | Senior Implementation Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022 **What do you like best about HashiCorp Nomad?** It is a perfect deployment tool for the implementation team **What do you dislike about HashiCorp Nomad?** nothing so far. I am loving to work on this **What problems is HashiCorp Nomad solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are deploying with ease, and tracking of each servers while deploying. ### 4. Simplifying system architectures **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul R. | Adviser & Director of E-commerce & Web technology , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021 **What do you like best about HashiCorp Nomad?** How easy it is to deploy containers compared to alternatives. **What do you dislike about HashiCorp Nomad?** There are not as many developed systems globally to date, resulting in less community experience and support. **What problems is HashiCorp Nomad solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the tests, NOMAD proved a reasonable solution for helping deploy parts of our service offering. It allowed the desired price point. ### 5. I have worked in Nomad for 2+ years **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajeev M. | Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about HashiCorp Nomad?** It is incredibly light and flexible container orchestrator, We created a robust system with other hashicorp products ( consul, Vault , Terraform ) . **What do you dislike about HashiCorp Nomad?** It needs integration and doesn't clmes with packaged solution like kubernetes or openshift **Recommendations to others considering HashiCorp Nomad:** You can use it instead of Kubernetes or docker swarrm or mesos **What problems is HashiCorp Nomad solving and how is that benefiting you?** Container Orchestration ### 6. Simple and easy to use with great features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about HashiCorp Nomad?** Easy to install and use, and I really like clustering and compatibility with docker **What do you dislike about HashiCorp Nomad?** The documentation can be changed somewhere it was not very clear **What problems is HashiCorp Nomad solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tasks scheduling and clustering over multiple devices ### 7. Nomad is an advance of kubernetes platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about HashiCorp Nomad?** Easy to manage and advance orchestration platform **What do you dislike about HashiCorp Nomad?** So far not identified have to use more to see if any **What problems is HashiCorp Nomad solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orcharation platform of docker High availability with multiple replicas Easy link to multiple Hashicorp and other product ### 8. A promising orchestrator, complete solution **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hatim B. | IT Architect & Project manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2018 **What do you like best about HashiCorp Nomad?** The simplicity of the tool: a single binary for the client and the server. The universality of the product: it orchestrates both Docker containers and any other type of service. The tool integrates natively with other Hashicorp products: Consul for the discovery and Vault service for ACL management. Node management through client agents allows for simplified management of a node cluster-based infrastructure spanning across multiple data centers and across multiple regions. The scripts are not complex to edit, and largely variabilized, even if some gaps in the variability of the templates persist. The use of the GOSSIP protocol for the discovery and the election of the leader offers a better availability of the servers, to face the breakdowns. the UI interface is a plus, but remains to be improved. **What do you dislike about HashiCorp Nomad?** Updates stomp. The tool positions itself as an orchestrator of containers and suffers from strong competition from market leaders. the community is not very active. The UI side of the tool needs to be improved for a better user experience. **Recommendations to others considering HashiCorp Nomad:** The choice of Nomad is more satisfactory for the operational than the developers. the simplicity and universality of the product is to the detriment of the richness of the solution **What problems is HashiCorp Nomad solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nomad has been used as an orchestrator in a Docker container infrastructure. it has been coupled with other products of Hashicorp: Consul and Vault. Thanks to Nomad, deployments and executions of dockerised applications have been well managed, in a simple and elegant way. ### 9. Development essential **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2017 **What do you like best about HashiCorp Nomad?** Vagrant integration; Every product I've ever used by HashiCorp has been tops A+ **What do you dislike about HashiCorp Nomad?** Complex initial setup; Requires a high level understanding of the entirety of the infrastructure to apply successfully **What problems is HashiCorp Nomad solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can't imagine my life before Nomad. I've been using Vagrant since college, and Nomad is just one more step up. Nomad is the exorcist to my environment ghosts. ### 10. Brilliant at scheduling jobs - that's it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Toby A. | Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2016 **What do you like best about HashiCorp Nomad?** Nomad is a great job scheduler. The config syntax is really great to use. Bootstrapping/deploying a Nomad cluster is incredibly easy **What do you dislike about HashiCorp Nomad?** There is no auto scaling functionality in Nomad. **What problems is HashiCorp Nomad solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orchestrating containers and scheduling jobs means we're saving money by utilizing our resources efficiently. ## HashiCorp Nomad Discussions - [Does Nomad use docker?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-nomad-use-docker) - [What is Nomad Devops?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-nomad-devops) - [What is Nomad system?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-nomad-system) - [What is Nomad software used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-nomad-software-used-for) - [View HashiCorp Nomad pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/hashicorp-hashicorp-nomad/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+02%3A02%3A15+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=797cdb4d-f02a-4007-8d3e-29701dacbda7&secure%5Btoken%5D=d43c75941299f0b2e0da2f161665c71a8abe4804724410ba6543b052b11b6084&format=llm_user) ## Top HashiCorp Nomad Alternatives - [VMware vSphere](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsphere/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (745 reviews) - [Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service-amazon-eks/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (106 reviews) - [Red Hat OpenShift](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-red-hat-openshift/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (288 reviews)