I really like the look of nomad and want to give it a go. The two things holding me back are:
1) I don't really want to manage the installation but there aren't any(?) cloud hosts for nomad that I can see.
2) It doesn't seem as widely used so community support seems thin. There aren't many blog posts about good patterns with it etc, and I'd worry that we'd get stuck and end up reverting back to k8s.
There is no installation needed with Nomad, it's a standalone binary.
Just fire it in a small Debian (or Alma) instance on EC2 or GCE and you're done. That should solve point 1.
Point 2 is debatable. Lots of people nowadays put Kubernetes on their resume but that doesn't mean they are great architects or technicians, yet a good part of running production on Kubernetes is doing it right.
You'll see much fewer people with Nomad on their resume, but on the other hand you know they're not here for the buzz, they're usually more experienced and know what they're talking about.
1) I don't really want to manage the installation but there aren't any(?) cloud hosts for nomad that I can see. 2) It doesn't seem as widely used so community support seems thin. There aren't many blog posts about good patterns with it etc, and I'd worry that we'd get stuck and end up reverting back to k8s.