Sorry, I think I came across dismissive of Nomad which I am not. I work with multiple products in the HC stack daily, but have yet to work with Nomad, however, the bits that I have seen and read about Nomad, it seems like a great tool, and I agree there is place for Nomad in the current ecosystem, just like there is place for ECS. Even if I didn't think so, at the very least, like you said, it's good to have competition.

What I was calling out is the abundance of people who claim it is the greatest thing since the tech equivalent of sliced bread, and love to point out how simple it is despite requiring the need for Consul to run it at enterprise scale and likely also Vault if you need secret management in any form, which then also needs Consul if you want to run it at scale. I have intimate experience with running Vault and Consul and have advised colleagues for the better part of 2 years on utilising Vault (either as basic secrets management or some of its more advanced features). IIRC the recommendation from HC is also running a third Consul cluster for service discovery. If running Nomad at scale is anything like Vault, then it isn't as simple as people make it out to be, never mind the fact that you'll probably be running 5 different clusters of 3 different products to provide functionality that doesn't fulfill half of what Kubernetes gives.