I recently worked on a PoC evaluating Nomad for a client. Since there were certain constraints limiting what was possible on the client environment, I put together something “quick” on my personal workstation to see what was required for Alluxio to play nice with Nomad.
Getting up and running with Nomad is fairly quick and easy; download the compressed binary, extract it, and start the Nomad agent in dev mode. Done! Getting Alluxio to run on Nomad turned out to be a little more involved than I thought. One major issue I ran into quite early on in the exercise was that Nomad doesn’t yet support persistent storage natively (expected in the next release).