HashiCorp Nomad

Spec sheet

What it does

Nomad is a distributed scheduler and orchestrator for service, batch and system workloads across cloud, on-premises and edge environments.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Purpose

Nomad schedules and orchestrates containers, binaries, and virtual machines across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hashicorp.com

Deployment

Nomad is available as a precompiled binary or package for several operating systems, and can also be built from source.Read 28 Sep 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

API

Its REST-style HTTP API controls nearly every agent function, uses /v1 routes and listens on port 4646 by default.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Integrations

Nomad integrates with Terraform, Consul, Vault and Waypoint, and its catalog lists 86 integrations including task drivers, observability plugins, packs and autoscaler components.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Security

Nomad's security mechanisms include mutual TLS, access control lists, namespaces, and Sentinel policies; some multi-tenant features are Enterprise-only.Read 28 Sep 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · hashicorp.com

Founded

2012Read 28 Sep 2026 · hashicorp.com

Acquisition news

IBM announced on April 24, 2024 an agreement to acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, valuing the deal at $6.4 billion.Read 15 Oct 2026 · newsroom.ibm.com

API security

API requests can use X-Nomad-Token or Bearer ACL credentials, with TLS recommended when authentication is enabled.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

App-store status

The Apple App Store listing named HashiCorp Nomad Prep identifies itself as an unofficial independent study app, not a HashiCorp product, and has insufficient ratings to display.Read 15 Oct 2026 · apps.apple.com

Architecture

Nomad runs as a single process with no external dependencies and supports Linux and Windows clients.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Company founding

Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar founded HashiCorp in 2012.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hashicorp.com

Company size and location

LinkedIn lists HashiCorp as founded in 2012, headquartered in San Francisco and employing 1,001–5,000 people.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Consul integration

Nomad integrates with Consul for automatic clustering, service registration and discovery, service mesh, and dynamic configuration.Read 28 Sep 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Docker

Nomad's Docker driver handles downloading containers, mapping ports, and starting, watching, and cleaning up containers.Read 28 Sep 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Docker limitation

Running Nomad clients inside Docker is not officially supported because clients need extensive host access; the image is intended for CLI pipelines and is not tested as an agent.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Documentation

The documentation covers HCL job and agent specifications, Nomad Pack, autoscaling, federation, upgrades, Autopilot, Terraform provisioning and community task drivers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Edge

Nomad manages workloads on edge devices such as sensors or microcomputers that are not continuously connected to central cloud centers.Read 28 Sep 2026 · hashicorp.com

Edge support

Device plugins let Nomad place workloads on specialized edge hardware within a shared hybrid cluster topology.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hashicorp.com

Enterprise features

Nomad Enterprise adds resource quotas, Sentinel policies, audit logging, multi-region deployments, and advanced server management with Nomad Autopilot.Read 28 Sep 2026 · docs.hashicorp.com

Installation

Nomad is distributed as precompiled binaries, OS packages or source; official instructions cover Linux repositories, macOS Homebrew and manual downloads.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Licence

The repository identifies Nomad as BUSL-1.1 licensed, making it source-available rather than OSI open source; Enterprise files are excluded from the open-source licensing.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Limit: ingress and support

Capterra reviewers report no embedded ingress, sparse tutorials or support and reliance on additional integrations.Read 15 Oct 2026 · capterra.com

Limit: Kubernetes comparison

G2 reviewers say Nomad has fewer advanced capabilities and a smaller community than Kubernetes, with some reporting unclear documentation and setup complexity.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Limit: surrounding services

TrustRadius reviewers report needing separate tools for secrets, service discovery and routing, and note limited service-mesh and tracing support.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trustradius.com

Networking requirements

Default ports are 4646 for HTTP, 4647 for RPC and 4648 for Serf WAN, plus dynamic ports 20,000–32,000.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Operating systems

The installation guide provides instructions for Linux, Mac, and Windows.Read 28 Sep 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Ownership

HashiCorp's About page identifies it as an IBM company and says it had more than 2,200 employees in fiscal 2024.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hashicorp.com

Praise: configuration and integration

Capterra reviewers praise simple operation, HCL job definitions, deployment of containerized and non-containerized applications and ecosystem integration.Read 15 Oct 2026 · capterra.com

Praise: ease and flexibility

G2 reviewers repeatedly praise easy operation, flexible cloud and on-premises deployment, lightweight scheduling and HashiCorp integrations.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Praise: simplicity

TrustRadius reviewers describe a single Go binary and straightforward implementation, associating it with quicker deployments, canaries and rollbacks.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trustradius.com

Rating on Capterra

4.0 out of 5 from 8 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · capterra.com

Rating on G2

4.1 out of 5 from 10 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on Gartner Peer Insights

4.8 out of 5 from 2 ratingsRead 15 Oct 2026 · gartner.com

Rating on TrustRadius

8.0 out of 10 from 8 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · trustradius.com

Release

Nomad 2.0.6 was released on September 9, 2026 with HTTP/2 disable and WebSocket origin configuration changes plus a one-second minimum reschedule delay.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Scale

HashiCorp documents operation at more than 10,000 nodes and thousands of container placements per second, with federation across regions and clouds.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Scheduling features

The product provides self-healing, bin packing, zero-downtime deployments and autoscaling capabilities.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hashicorp.com

SDKs

HashiCorp provides a Go client and documents community libraries for Python, Java, Scala, Ruby, Kotlin, NodeJS and Nix.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Security model

Nomad supports mutual TLS, ACLs, namespaces, Enterprise Sentinel policies and resource quotas, but the documentation says it is not secure by default.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Server requirements

Production guidance suggests 4–8 or more CPU cores, 16–32 GB or more RAM and 40–80 GB or more of fast disk per server.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Vault integration

Nomad integrates with Vault to retrieve static and dynamic secrets for workloads.Read 28 Sep 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Windows packaging

The Windows Chocolatey package is not maintained directly by HashiCorp, so the vendor recommends manual binaries for the latest version.Read 15 Oct 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Workload support

It can run containers, virtual machines, static binaries, Java JARs, legacy applications and operating-system commands.Read 15 Oct 2026 · hashicorp.com

Workloads

Nomad can run containers, legacy applications, and batch applications on the same infrastructure.Read 28 Sep 2026 · developer.hashicorp.com

Plans and prices

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