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Nomad: The 2 Million Container Challenge

In 22 minutes, Nomad deployed 2 million docker containers across 10 AWS regions, achieving 1500 containers per second. Watch this session to learn the test setup, technical details, and performance analysis.

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To watch all presentations from Nomad Virtual Day 2021, check out our event page here: Nomad Virtual Day 2021

On March 10, 2021, HashiCorp held its first Nomad Virtual Day of 2021. The full 2.5-hour livestream featured technical talks and demos presented by members of the Nomad engineering team, customer use cases from the community, and a live Q&A.

Nomad published the latest scalability benchmark in parallel with Nomad 1.0 release. In 22 minutes, Nomad deployed 2 million docker containers across 10 AWS regions, achieving 1500 containers per second. The team continues to work on more strenuous tests around failure scenarios to observe the resilience of Nomad. Watch this session to learn the test setup, technical details, and performance analysis.

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