Nomad

Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 15 threads.

People raised many different problems with Nomad, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 19 complaints

String-embedded code and templates become huge, opaque, and hard to use as setups grow2023-11-18
Job start order is arbitrary, so the most recent jobs are hard to find2023-10-10
Nomad is unusable alone; configuring and maintaining integrations is nontrivial and annoying2023-10-10
During a deployment scaling is disabled, making scale-in deploys to thousands of containers dangerous2023-10-08
Lacks tooling, templating and CI/CD integration, forcing bash scripts and guesswork2023-08-21
Native service discovery is awkward, requiring env vars or template blocks to pass addresses2023-02-15
Recovering a failed cluster requires manually hand-writing a peers.json file2022-12-01
Hard to set up and manage because it requires Consul and needs much babysitting2022-08-30
Couldn't figure out how to create EBS volumes on demand2022-08-28
Couldn't figure out how to deploy it; too complex with Consul and Vault2022-05-18
Hard to figure out startup order and how Nomad and Consul interact; docs list options without setup guidance2021-07-22
Getting Nomad and Consul running was difficult and overwhelming to set up2021-07-21
Gets confusing past the tutorials, forcing piecing together Consul and Vault setup2021-05-03
No easy way to configure with YAML or JSON; forced to write HCL2021-02-15
Ingress and networking must be figured out manually, with no standard setup like Helm charts2021-02-15
Default web UI is confusing, so people accidentally killed live containers2021-02-15
No easy way to check if a config option exists in their version2020-06-06
Setup on a single local machine fails with a dozen errors; docs seem haphazard2020-01-13
Hard to navigate; pagination stops browsing early and projects need opening candidate profiles2016-09-07