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kops vs Nomad: What are the differences?

kops: Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management. It helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters from the command line. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is currently officially supported, with GCE in beta support , and VMware vSphere in alpha, and other platforms planned; 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.

kops and Nomad can be categorized as "Cluster Management" tools.

kops and Nomad are both open source tools. kops with 9.27K GitHub stars and 2.78K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Nomad with 4.94K GitHub stars and 892 GitHub forks.

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Pros of kops
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      Built in Consul integration
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      Easy setup
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      Bult-in Vault integration
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      Built-in federation support
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      Self-healing
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      Autoscaling support
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      Bult-in Vault inegration
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      Stable
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      Simple
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      Nice ACL
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      Managable by terraform
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      Open source
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      Multiple workload support
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      Flexible

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    Cons of kops
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        Easy to start with
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        HCL language for configuration, an unpopular DSL
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        Small comunity

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      What is kops?

      It helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters from the command line. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is currently officially supported, with GCE in beta support , and VMware vSphere in alpha, and other platforms planned.

      What is Nomad?

      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.

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      What are some alternatives to kops and Nomad?
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      Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes clusters.
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      Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
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