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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 13, 2024

Rancher Labs and HashiCorp Nomad compete in container orchestration and management. Rancher is favored for pricing and support, while Nomad is valued for its comprehensive feature set.

Features: Rancher Labs provides robust multi-cluster management, an intuitive dashboard, and seamless Kubernetes integration. HashiCorp Nomad offers flexibility, lightweight architecture, and supports both containerized and legacy applications. Rancher focuses on Kubernetes, whereas Nomad supports non-container workloads.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Rancher offers simple Kubernetes setup and strong community support with extensive documentation and active community involvement. HashiCorp Nomad requires greater initial configuration knowledge but offers flexible deployment and integrates with other HashiCorp tools.

Pricing and ROI: Rancher Labs presents a cost-effective option through open-source licensing, which suits organizations with limited budgets. HashiCorp Nomad's pricing is higher due to enterprise solutions but is justified by scalability and cross-compatibility for larger enterprises.

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HashiCorp Nomad vs. Rancher Labs

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Categories and Ranking

HashiCorp Nomad

Ranking in Container Management

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Rancher Labs

Ranking in Container Management

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Storage for Kubernetes (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of HashiCorp Nomad is 3.0%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rancher Labs is 8.4%, up from 8.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Management

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Zeeshan Akhtar

Full stack developer at VMware

Has out of the box features , which is good for companies that don't want to spend too much time on research

I've noticed a few UI issues. For example, when monitoring services and tasks, sometimes the tasks keep disconnecting. If you open the shell in HashiCorp Nomad using the exit button, it often disconnects, and you have to log in again. Sometimes, when I check the logs in the UI for microservices tasks, I encounter an issue where the logs are not visible. However, if I log in again after some time, refresh the page, or check a different container, the logs usually appear. These logs are being generated, as I can see them being shipped to my LogView. I'm not sure if this is a product issue or something related to our deployment, but I've noticed it.

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RyanVassallo

Head of Systems and Infrastructure at Booming Games

Offers an open-source version along with a good UI

The product has multiple good features. One of the solution's good features is that it is the GitOps functionality known as Rancher fleet, which is used for continuous delivery. The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or on-premises, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations. The tool also has a feature that is still kind of maturing, but I think it has very good potential. This new feature is named Harvester, which is allows users to have virtual machines managed by Kubernetes engine. This is very new technology in the market. I think that Harvester needs to mature as a product, and I think that in the future, it will be very powerful. You have one tool that does many things for you.

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Pros

"You could get most of HashiCorp Nomad's features from other microservice orchestrators like Kubernetes. The tool's advantage is its ease of use and integration with services like Envoy. With Kubernetes, you must think about many things, like UI integration, which vault to use, and how to discover the service. With the tool, many things come out of the box, making it easy to start. For example, using the Ingress proxy with the tool is quite easy, while it's trickier with Kubernetes."

"If you face an issue with an image during deployment, the solution will automatically revert to the last stable image."

"The most valuable feature of Rancher Labs is its user interface, which makes it easier to work with containers and deployment."

"The most valuable feature is its comprehensive support, easy resource scaling, compatibility with various OEMs, and seamless service integration."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is an open-source solution that is easy to deploy."

"The initial setup is simple and straightforward."

"A great UI with very good integrations."

"The scalability potential is very good."

"The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations."

"This solution is not vendor-locked, which means that we we are able to use it across all of our resources; this feature is of great value to us."

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Cons

"It would be good to have a UI interface so that developers could receive notifications for jobs in a bad state."

"I've noticed a few UI issues. For example, when monitoring services and tasks, sometimes the tasks keep disconnecting. If you open the shell in HashiCorp Nomad using the exit button, it often disconnects, and you have to log in again. Sometimes, when I check the logs in the UI for microservices tasks, I encounter an issue where the logs are not visible. However, if I log in again after some time, refresh the page, or check a different container, the logs usually appear. These logs are being generated, as I can see them being shipped to my LogView. I'm not sure if this is a product issue or something related to our deployment, but I've noticed it."

"I can't migrate to the newer version."

"The solution could improve by adding more features in the dashboard, such as monitoring, scanning, and security. This would be a great benefit."

"We'd like their monitoring tool to be integrated by default."

"Could be more intuitive."

"We have found that the auto-secure feature of this solution doesn't always work, and could be improved to be more reliable, particularly when working with business critical applications."

"We're looking for something that is even easier to use. It's a bit complicated."

"One area for improvement in Rancher Labs is the development aspect."

"The biggest room for improvement in Rancher Labs would be to have a proper upgrading plan."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is free and open source but there is a fee for support."

"There is an annual subscription. The price of the solution should be cheaper and have better pricing flexibility."

"The pricing of the solution sits in the mid range, not high and not low. It has a fixed price that you pay every month."

"There are no hidden charges attached to the product unless a user opts for the premium support offered by the solution."

"The cost is reasonable since it's open source. Rancher effectively addresses container orchestration trends, especially for those with some Kubernetes knowledge."

"This is an open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs involved."

"Although Rancher Labs is an open-source solution, they also offer a paid version, where you buy the support when needed."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

16%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with HashiCorp Nomad?

Sometimes, the job is in a bad state, and we don't get any notifications. It would be good to have a UI interface so that developers could receive notifications for jobs in a bad state.

What is your primary use case for HashiCorp Nomad?

We use HashiCorp Nomad mainly to deploy our images in the form of jobs. It is also used for load balancing, containerization, and instance deployment.

What advice do you have for others considering HashiCorp Nomad?

I would recommend HashiCorp Nomad to other users because it is the best tool for deployment. It is easy for a beginner to learn to use HashiCorp Nomad for the first time. Any developer with a decen...

What do you like most about Rancher Labs?

The tool's UI is very convenient enough to help you manage multiple clusters in the cloud or the company, making it a product with which you can manage different clusters and locations.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rancher Labs?

The cost is reasonable since it's open-source. Rancher effectively addresses container orchestration trends, especially for those with some Kubernetes knowledge.

What needs improvement with Rancher Labs?

While Rancher Labs provides some level of security, it's not considered very robust. We found it to offer basic security features, which met some of our requirements, but we also relied on other op...

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HashiCorp

Overview

HashiCorp was founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012 with the goal of revolutionizing datacenter management: application development, delivery, and maintenance.

The datacenter of today is very different than the datacenter of yesterday, and we think the datacenter of tomorrow is just around the corner. We're writing software to take you all the way from yesterday to today, and then safely to tomorrow and beyond.

Physical, virtual, containers. Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. Windows, Linux, Mac. These are just some of the choices faced when architecting a datacenter of today. And the choice is not one or the other; instead, it is often a combination of many of these.

HashiCorp builds tools to ease these decisions by presenting solutions that span the gaps. Our tools manage both physical machines and virtual machines, Windows, and Linux, SaaS and IaaS, etc. And we're committed to supporting next-generation technologies, as well.

HashiCorp was founded and continues to be run by the primary authors of all our core technologies powering thousands of companies worldwide. We speak at conferences and write books related to application and infrastructure management.

All our foundational technologies are open source and developed openly, and have been since 2010.

The Tao of HashiCorp is the foundation that guides our vision, roadmap, and product design. As you evaluate using or contributing to HashiCorp's products, it may be valuable to understand the motivations and intentions for our work.

Rancher Labs build innovative, open source software that makes it easy to deploy and manage containers in production on any infrastructure. We enable organizations to accelerate all aspects of their software development pipeline, from writing and testing code to running complex microservices-based applications.

Rancher, our flagship container management platform, allows users to easily manage all aspects of running containers in development and production environments, on any infrastructure. With well over four million downloads, Rancher has quickly become the tools of choice for teams serious about running containers in production. This includes large enterprises such as Sony, IBM, Tyco, Align Technologies and more.

Sample Customers

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Albert Heijn, Bell, BMC, Samsung, WindStream, Johnson & Johnson