Nomad is a simple and flexible orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications across on-premises and cloud environments at scale.

Nomad 1.0, released in GA today, is a major milestone for the Nomad team and HashiCorp.

Announcing General Availability of HashiCorp Nomad 1.0

Learn the equivalent terminologies, comparisons, and differentiations between HashiCorp Nomad and Kubernetes.

A Kubernetes User's Guide to HashiCorp Nomad

Levant enhances HashiCorp Nomad with reusable, automated, and operator-friendly deployments.

Levant is Now a HashiCorp-Supported Project

Building on our security foundation, HashiCorp has obtained our first SOC II Type II report and ISO 27001 certificate for many of our enterprise products. 

HashiCorp Compliance Program Updates 

HashiCorp Nomad scheduled 2,000,000 Docker containers on 6,100 hosts in 10 AWS regions in 22 minutes.

HashiCorp Nomad Meets the 2 Million Container Challenge

This blog is a summary of HashiCorp activities at AWS re:Invent 2020. 

HashiCorp at AWS re:Invent 2020

We will be organizing a HashiCraft Holidays Hackstravaganza where you and your fellow tinkerers can use your creativity to showcase one or more of our products in creative and unexpected ways.

Announcing the HashiCraft Holidays Hackstravaganza

Get better observability and debuggability in your Nomad clusters with the new Event Stream feature in Nomad 1.0.

Building on Top of HashiCorp Nomad’s Event Stream

While Kubernetes is leading the orchestration market, this blog explains why a growing number of customers choose Nomad as an alternative or use each tool where most appropriate. 

Nomad, Kubernetes, and a Pragmatic Look at Choosing Orchestrators

In this blog, we round-up all of the KubeCon related activities HashiCorp will be doing this week at the virtual conference and adjacent to it. 

HashiCorp and KubeCon North America Virtual

With the release of HashiCorp Nomad 1.0, Nomad Enterprise now includes Dynamic Application Sizing, an expansion of Nomad's existing Autoscaler capabilities.

HashiCorp Nomad Dynamic Application Sizing

Take a brief tour of Nomad 1.0’s new zero-configuration topology visualization tool.

See Your Entire Cluster at Once with Nomad's Topology Visualization

Autodesk Research uses HashiCorp Nomad to explore ways to turn conventional industrial design processes on their head to improve product usability.

How Autodesk Uses HashiCorp Nomad to Modernize the Workflow of Making Things 

HashiCorp Nomad has officially reached version 1.0, bringing HCL2 support, dynamic application sizing, namespaces in the OSS version, and more.  

Announcing HashiCorp Nomad 1.0 Beta

This new feature allows Nomad to provide access to Consul services from outside the service mesh.

Introducing HashiCorp Nomad 0.12's New Consul Ingress Gateway Capability

A recap of the major news, workshops, and panels for HashiCorp Nomad during HashiConf Digital in June.

HashiConf Digital June 2020: Nomad News in Review

Get Terraform, Packer, Vault, Consul, and Nomad up and running even faster on macOS with our new official Homebrew Tap.

Announcing HashiCorp’s Homebrew Tap

Today, the Sentinel team is pleased to announce the release of the Sentinel Playground. We have built the Playground so that new and existing customers have access to a zero-install development environment. Now, practitioners can learn and experiment with policy as code in minutes without having to install and maintain runtime environments on their own machines.

Announcing the Sentinel Playground

Ample Organics, a global leader in tech infrastructure and services for the cannabis industry, shares how HashiCorp Nomad and Consul has helped them create an agnostic platform that makes it possible to ship 125 client deployments per day with zero downtime and 10% reduction in operating costs.

How HashiCorp Nomad Helps Relax Cannabis Compliance and Kubernetes Complexity

Learn from nearly 20 free, interactive, hands-on tutorials as presented at HashiConf Digital.

Learn From 20 Free Interactive Tutorials As Presented At HashiConf Digital

With the launch of Nomad 0.12, Nomad now supports running Consul Connect native tasks. In this blog, we explain how this integration works and provide examples on how to get started.

Consul Connect Native Tasks in HashiCorp Nomad 0.12

A couple of years ago cloud bursting was all the rage, but it never delivered on its promise because of the inherent complexity that it comes with. But in this day and age, is cloud bursting still relevant? Let's see what Nomad and Consul can do to solve some of the problems it promised to.

Cloud Bursting with Nomad and Consul

Today we’re happy to announce HashiCorp’s official Linux repository, a source of Debian and RPM packages for HashiCorp products. These packages will provide Linux users with a better installation and upgrade experience.

Announcing the HashiCorp Linux Repository

This release also delivers 15+ new and powerful features with thematic emphasis on application deployment flexibility and operator maintainability at scale. We are pleased to announce the general availability of HashiCorp Nomad 0.12.

Announcing General Availability of HashiCorp Nomad 0.12 

Nomad Enterprise 0.12 multi-cluster deployments enable organizations to deploy applications seamlessly to federated Nomad clusters with configurable rollout and rollback strategies. It achieves simple and elegant federated deployments without the architectural complexity and overhead of running clusters on clusters.

HashiCorp Nomad Multi-Cluster Deployment

Today we are happy to announce the new release of the Nomad Autoscaler, which is now in beta. The highlight of this release is the long-awaited horizontal cluster autoscaling capability. This feature allows you to automatically add or remove clients from your Nomad cluster as your load changes, with initial support for Autoscaling Groups in AWS.

Cluster Scaling with the HashiCorp Nomad Autoscaler

Nomad 0.12 includes significant networking improvements for Nomad managed services. The two most significant networking improvements are multi-interface networking and CNI plugin support. Both features may be enabled by Nomad cluster administrators and then leveraged by Nomad job authors. Existing clusters and workloads will continue to work as they do today.

Multi-Interface Networking and CNI Plugins in Nomad 0.12 

In this guest blog, you'll hear about a plugin that combines HashiCorp Nomad and Podman — a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers.

Innovating Infrastructures with HashiCorp Nomad and Podman

Nomad 0.12 introduces our breakthrough Multi-Cluster Deployment feature, which makes Nomad the first and only orchestrator on the market with complete and fully-supported federation capabilities for production. This release also delivers 15+ new and powerful features with thematic emphasis on application deployment flexibility and operator maintainability at scale.

Announcing HashiCorp Nomad 0.12 Beta

Bowery, a Google-backed modern farming startup, shares their story about how Nomad powers their data engineers to optimize the production process from germination to harvest.

How Nomad powers a Google-backed indoor farming startup to Disrupt AgTech

This is a Nomad community story by Navi Capital, an over 1 Billion hedge fund specialized in Brazilian stocks. Hear how they use HashiCorp Nomad to streamline data-driven investment decisions.

Nomad Community Story: How Nomad powers a $1B hedge fund in Brazil

Introducing a new livestreaming series, Nomad Under the Hood. In these sessions, Nomad engineers will walkthrough how a particular feature or function gets developed, share the thinking behind the feature design, and provide insights on how to contribute. Join us on YouTube.

Nomad Under the Hood

Announcing the general availability of Nomad 0.11! This release delivers a set of new features including extensible, pluggable storage volumes and autoscaling to enhance its core orchestration capabilities. For enterprise customers, audit logging brings administrative visibility and operational traceability to fulfill compliance requirements.

HashiCorp Nomad 0.11 General Availability

Nomad 0.11 introduces the task dependencies feature that allows users to efficiently define and run interdependent workloads in sequence.

HashiCorp Nomad Task Dependencies

Nomad 0.11 includes a new Web UI incarnation of the allocation exec feature that was first added to the CLI in Nomad 0.9.2. This lets operators connect to an allocation on a client and investigate without having to leave the browser.

HashiCorp Nomad Remote Exec Web UI

Nomad 0.11 Enterprise includes new audit logging features. In this blog post, we’ll go over how audit logging is implemented in Nomad, how the audit log is constructed, and what control administrators have over what is audited.

HashiCorp Nomad Enterprise Audit Logging

Nomad 0.11 includes a new way to manage external storage volumes for your stateful workloads—support for the Container Storage Interface (CSI). We’ll provide an overview of this new capability in this blog post.

HashiCorp Nomad Container Storage Interface (CSI) Beta

Nomad 0.11 announced a Technical Preview of the HashiCorp Nomad Autoscaler. This is a new open source project that provides the ability to automatically scale workloads running on a Nomad cluster. It's capable of being easily deployed on Nomad, and it employs a plugin system that allows operators to perform autoscaling in whatever way is appropriate for their workloads.

HashiCorp Nomad Autoscaling Tech Preview

Nomad 0.11 delivers a set of new features including extensible, pluggable storage volumes and autoscaling to enhance its core orchestration capabilities. For enterprise customers, audit logging brings administrative visibility and operational traceability to fulfill compliance requirements.

Announcing HashiCorp Nomad 0.11 Beta

Nomad now has documented load balancer integration examples for NGINX, HAProxy, and Traefik on HashiCorp Learn. Check out an overview of how each integration works.

Integrating Third-Party Load Balancers with Nomad: NGINX, HAProxy, Traefik

We're excited to announce the general availability of Nomad 0.10. This release focuses on Consul Connect integration and storage features that enhance our support for advance networking with service mesh and stateful workloads, including network namespaces, host volumes and Web UI enhancements.

HashiCorp Nomad 0.10 General Availability

In this post, we outline how we built Dance Dance Automation to demonstrate the use of HashiCorp Nomad, Terraform, and Consul and document some of the challenges along the way.

Demonstrating HashiCorp Tools with Dance Dance Automation

This blog post presents an overview of service segmentation, and how to use features in Nomad to enable end-to-end mTLS between services through Consul Connect.

Consul Connect Integration in HashiCorp Nomad

We are pleased to announce the availability of a beta release for HashiCorp Nomad 0.10. This release introduces advanced networking and storage features that enhance our support for stateful workloads and sidecar applications.

Announcing HashiCorp Nomad 0.10 Beta

We are pleased to announce the availability of Hashicorp Nomad 0.9.2, which enables developers and operators to easily interact with task environments, run allocation lifecycle management commands, and configure canary-based deployments to auto-promote. This release also adds preemption capabilities for service and batch jobs to Nomad Enterprise.

HashiCorp Nomad 0.9.2

HashiCorp Nomad 0.9 introduces device plugins which support an extensible set of devices for scheduling and deploying workloads. A device plugin allows physical hardware devices to be detected, fingerprinted, and made available to the Nomad job scheduler. The 0.9 release includes a device plugin for NVIDIA GPUs.

Using HashiCorp Nomad to Schedule GPU Workloads

Containers are changing the software packaging and distribution paradigm. Singularity takes this to the next level by offering a simple platform designed around container mobility, reproducibility, security, and performance.

Singularity and HashiCorp Nomad: A Perfect Fit for Enterprise High Performance Computing

We are pleased to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Nomad 0.9.

Nomad is a flexible workload orchestrator that can be used to deploy and manage a diverse set of workloads of different types, like micro-service, batch, containerized, and legacy applications across multiple regions or cloud providers. Nomad is easy to operate and scale, and integrates seamlessly with HashiCorp Consul for service discovery and HashiCorp Vault for secrets management.

HashiCorp Nomad 0.9

Hashicorp Nomad 0.9 introduces new scheduling features that allow application owners and operators more fine-grained control over where to place their workloads. This post describes these features in more detail.

Spread and Affinites in Nomad

In the last few weeks, we've published several hands-on guides to help you learn how to deploy and scale applications with Nomad.

Nomad Learning Resources: Vault Integration, Prometheus Monitoring, Reference Architecture, Deployment Guide, Load Balancing

As a follow-up to the HashiCorp Consul plus Kubernetes blog series, this blog highlights our recent work to provide first-class support for Kubernetes across HashiCorp product line.

Announcing First-Class Kubernetes Support for HashiCorp Products

Today at HashiConf 2018 in San Francisco, we are announcing major updates across our entire suite of open source and enterprise products. Our mission is to allow users to run applications on any infrastructure, cloud or on-premises, using a modern infrastructure as code approach. This blog is a summary of the announcements being made at the event.

HashiCorp Product Announcements at HashiConf 2018

In this series we explore how Nomad handles unexpected failures, outages, and routine maintenance of cluster infrastructure, often without operator intervention. 

In this post we’ll explore how Nomad is designed to handle transient and permanent failures of both clients and servers gracefully to make it easy to run highly reliable infrastructure.

Building Resilient Infrastructure with Nomad: Fault Tolerance and Outage Recovery

This is the third in a series Building Resilient Infrastructure with Nomad (Part 1, Part 2). In this series we explore how Nomad handles unexpected failures, outages, and routine maintenance of cluster infrastructure, often without operator intervention required.

In this post we’ll look at how Nomad adds resiliency to your computing infrastructure by providing a consistent workflow for managing the entire job lifecycle, including robust options for updating and migrating jobs that help minimize or even eliminate down time.

Building Resilient Infrastructure with Nomad: Job Lifecycle

This is the second post in our series Building Resilient Infrastructure with Nomad. In this series we explore how Nomad handles unexpected failures, outages, and routine maintenance of cluster infrastructure, often without operator intervention required. 

In this post we’ll look at how the Nomad client enables fast and accurate scheduling as well as self-healing through driver health checks and liveness heartbeats.

Building Resilient Infrastructure with Nomad:  Scheduling and Self-Healing 

Welcome to our series on Building Resilient Infrastructure with Nomad, where we explore how Nomad handles unexpected failures, outages, and routine maintenance of cluster infrastructure, often without operator intervention required. 

In this first post, we'll look at how Nomad automates the restart of failed and unresponsive tasks as well as reschedule of repeatedly failing tasks to other nodes.

Building Resilient Infrastructure with Nomad: Restarting tasks

HashiCorp Nomad 0.8 introduces advanced node draining to simplify cluster wide upgrades of Nomad client nodes. This post explores how HashiCorp Nomad’s improved draining features can be used to drain an existing workload from one set of nodes to a new set of nodes without downtime.

Advanced Node Draining in HashiCorp Nomad

We are pleased to announce the release of HashiCorp Nomad 0.8. Version 0.8 enhances Nomad's cluster management features and reliability, helping to ensure a seamless operational experience as a growing number of enterprises adopt Nomad, move into production, and scale out.

HashiCorp Nomad 0.8

It seems that containers are everywhere.  They should be.  They make it easier to deploy applications into environments for development, testing and in production.  However, what about when containers just don’t work? To take full advantage of the container orchestration platforms currently available there has to be considerable changes made to the applications and the deployment processes.  For green field applications this is not a problem as they are usually built with containers in mind.  What do you do if you want to have the advantages of a container-like scheduler but for your legacy applications? Enter HashiCorp Nomad.

HashiCorp Nomad and Legacy Applications

Apache Heron is a stream processing engine (SPE) open sourced by Twitter in 2016 and now currently in incubation under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation. At Twitter, Heron was built to provide multi-tenancy, efficient resource usage, support for a variety of programming languages and APIs, operational simplicity at massive scale, and high productivity for developers building both real-time and batch services. Today, Heron serves the lion’s share of Twitter’s massive real-time processing needs, is used by numerous large enterprises, and has a thriving open source community.

As a core contributor to Heron, I’m excited to announce that Nomad is being added as a fully supported scheduler for Heron.

Introducing Heron on Nomad

At HashiCorp, we’ve always said that all of our projects should work well separately, but better together. This is certainly true for HashiCorp Terraform and HashiCorp Nomad. Terraform provisions the infrastructure and Nomad schedules and deploys applications. When deploying Nomad, you may do this however you like, and the Nomad team strives to make that easy to do, but if you opt to use Terraform to manage the servers that Nomad runs on, we believe that should offer a first-class experience.

Leveling Up the Terraform Provider for Nomad

A lot of HashiCorp users and employees love our whole suite of products, but like with your grandmother, it’s almost impossible not to have one slight predilection over one of our creations (says the favorite grandchild). In my case, my predilection for HashiCorp Nomad is quite evident, to the point of being a running joke among the European team. I think not a single customer meeting goes by without someone saying "yeah, that’s Nomad, Nico’s favorite product…".

A brief history on how to secure your workflow for job deployments in Nomad

No one wants to manage storage, but high-value applications aren’t going to run without it.   In an ideal world, storage would “just be there” without having to think about it --- or provision and manage it, right?

Portworx, a software-defined persistent storage solution for container workloads, provides a highly-available elastic data fabric.   Portworx cloud native storage allows jobs to seamlessly run hyper-converged with the storage layer for best performance --- and also provides a rich spectrum of options for data availability.

On-demand Container Storage with HashiCorp Nomad

OpenFaaS (or Functions as a Service) is a framework for building serverless functions but with containers. With OpenFaaS you can package any process or container as a serverless function for either Linux or Windows - just bring your Nomad cluster.  The project focuses on ease of use through its UI and CLI which can be used to test and monitor functions in tandem with Prometheus enabling auto-scaling.

Functions as a Service with Nomad and OpenFaaS

Guest post from Pavel Klushin, Solutions Architect at Spotinst.

Utilizing capacity in the cloud can save a lot of money, but taking advantage of those savings requires a lot of work. Spotinst, is a platform for running and managing elastic cloud compute and enables companies to reduce their compute infrastructure costs by 60-80%. HashiCorp Nomad provides easy-to-use and flexible cluster management and container scheduling. Nomad and Spotinst Elastigroup together allow you to efficiently deploy containerized workloads and easily manage clusters at any scale for a fraction of the cost.

Spotinst and HashiCorp Nomad to Reduce EC2 Costs for Users

We are pleased to announce the release of HashiCorp Nomad 0.7. Nomad is HashiCorp's lightweight and flexible cluster scheduler designed to easily integrate into your existing workflows. Nomad can run both microservice and batch workloads, and has first-class support for Docker as well as non-containerized applications.

HashiCorp Nomad 0.7

Today at HashiConf 2017 in Austin, Texas, we announced major updates and new features across our entire suite of open source and enterprise products, including HashiCorp Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, HashiCorp Consul, and HashiCorp Nomad. In addition to these product updates, we announced the release of Sentinel, our new policy as code framework that integrates across the Enterprise product suite, and the Terraform Module Registry, which provides example infrastructure templates to make provisioning across cloud environments easier, and so much more.

HashiCorp Announcements at HashiConf 2017

This post explores how to use the Nomad Terraform provider to control the lifecycle of a Nomad service.
Both HashiCorp Nomad and Terraform allow you to declaratively define infrastructure as code, but they serve different functions in the organization. Nomad schedules and monitors applications, making sure the application stays running and automatically reconciles any failure.  Nomad supports rolling deploys to deliver safer convergence. Nomad also integrates with Consul for service discovery and Vault for secrets management. Terraform, on the other hand, is a lifecycle management and provisioning tool. It creates, updates, and destroys the underlying infrastructure which Nomad will use to run applications. But Terraform is much more than a infrastructure tool - Terraform can also manage the process of submitting, updating, and deleting Nomad applications, which will allows modeling your entire infrastructure as code.
The Nomad Terraform provider is perfect for continuous delivery for your applications, and in this post we will look at how these tools work seamlessly together to enable this workflow.
Nomad provider for HashiCorp Terraform to run jobs with HashiCorp Nomad.

Continuous Deployment with Nomad and Terraform

We are pleased to announce the release of HashiCorp Nomad 0.6. Nomad is a distributed, scalable, and highly available cluster manager and scheduler designed for both microservice and batch workloads.
Nomad 0.6 includes a number of new features focused on improving job management and configuration as well as many improvements and bug fixes. Highlights include:

Job deployments
Job history and ability to revert to older versions 
Dynamic environment variables
Automatic advertisement of container IP addresses with HashiCorp Consul

We are also pleased to announce that the Nomad ecosystem now includes a version of Apache Spark that natively integrates Nomad as a Spark cluster manager and scheduler. See our Running Apache Spark on Nomad blog post for additional details.

HashiCorp Nomad 0.6

Apache Spark is a popular data processing engine/framework that has been architected to use third-party schedulers. The schedulers that are available, however, involve a level of complexity that can be undesirable for many potential Spark users. To help fill this gap, we are pleased to announce that the HashiCorp Nomad ecosystem now includes a version of Apache Spark that natively integrates Nomad as a Spark cluster manager and scheduler.

Running Apache Spark on HashiCorp Nomad

In a previous post, we explored how HashiCorp Consul discovers other agents using cloud metadata to bootstrap a cluster. This post looks at HashiCorp Nomad's auto-joining functionality and how we can use Terraform to create an autoscaled cluster.

Auto-bootstrapping a Nomad Cluster

Continuing the momentum from the HashiCorp Vault and HashiCorp Consul Quick Start Guides (QSG) which have seen tremendous usage, we’ve partnered with the AWS team to build a QSG for HashiCorp Nomad.

Nomad on AWS: Quick Start Guide

We are pleased to announce the release of Nomad v0.5.5. This release includes
several new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

Nomad v0.5.5 released!

Nomad v0.5.3 introduced parameterized jobs which act as job scaffolds that can be dispatched on demand with configurable arguments. These jobs behave similar to functions, encapsulating the logic and allowing the caller to name the job and provide appropriate arguments. Nomad Dispatch treats those &amp;quot;function calls&amp;quot; like a future or promise, making it easy to build scalable processing pipelines for operations like video transcoding, image resizing, sending emails, or doing a billing rollup.
This blog post explores using the new Nomad Dispatch feature to build a video transcoding service using the popular open source tool ffmpeg. Traditional approaches to this problem often involve many different components for work queuing, scheduling, capacity planning, and failure handling. Due to its design, Nomad automatically handles these concerns, allowing for focus on a minimal job definition and the business logic of the video transcoding service.

Replacing Queues with Nomad Dispatch

We are pleased to announce the release of Nomad v0.5.3. This release includes several new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

HashiCorp Nomad v0.5.3

We are pleased to announce the release of Nomad 0.5. Nomad is a distributed, scalable, and highly available cluster manager and scheduler designed for both microservice and batch workloads.

Nomad 0.5 includes a number of new features focused on increasing cluster security and enabling new workloads to be run on Nomad. Highlights include:

Vault Integration

Template Block

Sticky Volumes

Cluster Encryption

HashiCorp Nomad 0.5

We've released Nomad 0.4. Nomad is a distributed, scalable and highly available cluster manager and scheduler designed for both microservice and batch workloads.

Nomad 0.4 ships a number of new features focused on improving the operational aspects of the tool. Highlights include:

Nomad Plan

Live Resource Utilization

Simpler Clustering

HashiCorp Nomad 0.4

We are proud to announce the release of Nomad 0.3. Nomad is a distributed, scalable and highly available cluster manager and scheduler designed for both microservice and batch workloads.

This release introduces new features, hardens core components and improves UX across the board on the path towards ensuring Nomad is ready to run in production. Feature highlights include:

Periodic Jobs

Log Rotation and File System APIs

Job Queues

Please see the full Nomad 0.3 CHANGELOG for more details.

Download Nomad 0.3 here or read on to learn more about the major new features and improvements in Nomad 0.3.

HashiCorp Nomad 0.3

CVE-2015-7547 was announced on the morning of February 16th.  We would like to address HashiCorp users on how this affects any HashiCorp tooling.

glibc's CVE-2015-7547 and HashiCorp Tools

We are proud to announce the release of Nomad 0.2.
Nomad is a distributed, scalable and highly available cluster manager and scheduler
designed for both microservice and batch workloads.
The initial public release of Nomad was almost two months ago and we have been
busy extending the system, improving user experience, and fixing bugs.
Nomad 0.2 brings many new features including service discovery, a system
scheduler, restart policies, new constraint types, numerous client improvements,
and much more. Please see the full Nomad 0.2
CHANGELOG for more
details.
Download Nomad 0.2 here or read on to
learn more about the major new features and improvements in Nomad 0.2.

HashiCorp Nomad 0.2

Today we announce Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler designed for microservices and batch workloads. Nomad is distributed, highly available, and scales to thousands of nodes spanning multiple datacenters and regions.

Nomad provides a common workflow to deploy applications across an infrastructure. Developers use a declarative job specification to define how an application should be deployed and the resources it requires (CPU, memory, disk). Nomad accepts these jobs and finds available resources to run them. The scheduling algorithm ensures all constraints are satisfied, and packs as many applications on a host as possible to optimize resource utilization. Additionally, Nomad supports virtualized, containerized, or standalone applications running on all major operating systems giving it the flexibility to support a broad range of workloads.

Nomad is now being deployed in production environments and we are proud to share it publicly. We are excited about the future of the project, and are just beginning to build on the foundation that it provides.

Read on to learn more.