Maybe You Don’t Need Kubernetes

Especially in our team, which runs most services on-premise (because of its close connection to trivago’s core infrastructure), we didn’t want to afford running our own Kubernetes cluster. Inside your Nomad file, you can have sections for fetching data from those services:

This will read the key from Consul and expose it as a environment variable inside your job. Because it’s so simple, Nomad can also be easily extended with other services through its API.

Source: matthias-endler.de