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Apache Aurora vs Nomad: What are the differences?
Apache Aurora: An Apcahe Mesos framework for scheduling jobs, originally developed by Twitter. Apache Aurora is a service scheduler that runs on top of Mesos, enabling you to run long-running services that take advantage of Mesos' scalability, fault-tolerance, and resource isolation; Nomad: A cluster manager and scheduler. Nomad is a cluster manager, designed for both long lived services and short lived batch processing workloads. Developers use a declarative job specification to submit work, and Nomad ensures constraints are satisfied and resource utilization is optimized by efficient task packing. Nomad supports all major operating systems and virtualized, containerized, or standalone applications.
Apache Aurora and Nomad can be primarily classified as "Cluster Management" tools.
Apache Aurora and Nomad are both open source tools. Nomad with 4.93K GitHub stars and 893 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Apache Aurora with 615 GitHub stars and 231 GitHub forks.
CircleCI, LendUp, and Wealthsimple are some of the popular companies that use Nomad, whereas Apache Aurora is used by Twitter, Oscar Health, and Chartbeat. Nomad has a broader approval, being mentioned in 21 company stacks & 3 developers stacks; compared to Apache Aurora, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Apache Aurora
Pros of Nomad
- Built in Consul integration7
- Easy setup6
- Bult-in Vault integration4
- Built-in federation support3
- Self-healing2
- Autoscaling support2
- Bult-in Vault inegration1
- Stable1
- Simple1
- Nice ACL1
- Managable by terraform1
- Open source1
- Multiple workload support1
- Flexible1
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Cons of Apache Aurora
Cons of Nomad
- Easy to start with3
- HCL language for configuration, an unpopular DSL1
- Small comunity1