## TL;DR

HashiCorp Nomad (2015) is a flexible workload orchestrator — a simpler alternative to Kubernetes. Schedules and manages containers, VMs, and standalone applications across infrastructure. Single binary, no external dependencies. Nomad excels at non-containerized workloads (Java JARs, raw binaries) alongside containers.

## Core Explanation

Job specification (HCL): task group → tasks with resources, constraints, services. Schedulers: service (long-running), batch (short-lived), system (one per node). Nomad + Consul + Vault: the 'HashiStack' for orchestration + service mesh + secrets. Multi-region: federation across datacenters. Comparison to K8s: simpler, more versatile, smaller community.

## Further Reading

- [Nomad Documentation](https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/docs)