HashiCorp Nomad demo and Citadel use case

Cluster schedulers have become increasingly popular, in large part due to the rise of Docker and container orchestration for user-facing services. The original promise, however, was the unification of compute resources to support a common workflow for both long-running services and batch workloads. Nomad enables an organization like Citadel to run any workload on any infrastructure, with an emphasis on flexibility, ease-of-use, scalability and performance. Highlights include:

• Support for any workload, including Docker, virtualized, batch, application runtimes like Java, and long-running services.
• A single binary for both clients and servers with multi-region federation and built-in high availability.
• Optimistic concurrency, in which all servers participate in scheduling decisions, increasing total throughput and reducing latency.

Presenters:

• Armon Dadgar, co-founder and co-CTO, HashiCorp
• Caius Howcroft, Director of Compute and Data Infrastructure, Citadel