We're using Nomad for our backend at Singularity 6 (developing the mmo Palia).
In my experience (having worked with Nomad, k8s, mesos, and homegrown schedulers), k8s is fantastic from an early developer experience, but rough from an operations perspective. It's definitely gotten better, but there's a reason lots of folks want to have someone else host and operate their cluster.
Nomad is the opposite. Less tooling and bit more complexity for the app developer, significantly easier to operate at the cluster level. Nomad is also less "all-in" in it's architecture, which gives operators more flexibility in how they design and support the cluster.
The fact that we can run on anything and don't _have_ to use containers is a serious advantage, particularly for game development.
In my experience (having worked with Nomad, k8s, mesos, and homegrown schedulers), k8s is fantastic from an early developer experience, but rough from an operations perspective. It's definitely gotten better, but there's a reason lots of folks want to have someone else host and operate their cluster.
Nomad is the opposite. Less tooling and bit more complexity for the app developer, significantly easier to operate at the cluster level. Nomad is also less "all-in" in it's architecture, which gives operators more flexibility in how they design and support the cluster.
The fact that we can run on anything and don't _have_ to use containers is a serious advantage, particularly for game development.