We've continued to grow the Nomad team, and are working towards the big 1.0 release milestone later this month. The OSS usage continues to grow double digit every quarter and our commercial offering generates millions in revenue. Nomad is also the backbone of both HashiCorp Cloud Platform and Terraform Cloud. Suffice to say, we continue to support Nomad and depend on it!
That's great to hear. I want to thank you for your work on Nomad. Its been a pleasure to use and has allowed us to scale without unnecessary complexity.
On the contrary, the development of Nomad has really taken off over the last 9-12 months.
At the beginning of the year when my new team was starting to dig into the technologies we were going to be using in our new (to us) ecosystem, Nomad was hovering at the bottom of the list mainly from the lack of critical features we would be needing (namely, persistent storage solutions for containerized jobs but there were some other reasons I can't remember off the top of my head).
It was, I believe, around the 0.10 release that they laid out a roadmap for implementing the CSI spec on top of things like adding Autoscaling that we decided to go with it. This was back sometime before COVID lockdowns started and since then we've deployed it, along side Consul and Vault, to run our new internal production metrics/code coverage services.
Given we have committed to it, I've closely followed and have participated in it's development (in the form of a documentation contribution as well as assisting with a few issues related to the CSI implementation) and definitely believe the products development is moving much faster than it had been.
Keep in mind, Cloudflare is now using Nomad in (almost?) all of its data centers and Roblox has built out it's game server infrastructure using Nomad as it's orchestrator too. Hashicorp would be insane to throw away a product being used at that kind of scale.
Thanks, it's great to hear this kind of commitment. While it would certainly be possible to switch to Kubernetes if Nomad was ever abandoned, the thing is that I really wouldn't want to. Nomad, along with the rest of the Hashistack, is so much fun to use and feels so polished. Keep up the great work!
That's great to hear! I try not to buy into the "what's hot right now" mentality, but I'm just cautious after being left in the dark on products I've depended on. Glad they're continuing to invest in it.
