I Run Nomad on my Gaming PC (It's Great)

HashiCorp Nomad is a workload orchestrator. Think Kubernetes, but without the container-first dogma — it can schedule containers, sure, but also raw executables, Java applications, scripts, whatever you have. It's designed for fleets: multiple datacenters, hundreds of nodes, cross-machine scheduling. The kind of infrastructure where "where does this service run" is a question Nomad answers for you. That's the intended use case. Here's another one. My first professional encounter with Nomad was at a company where our team had no RDP access to the Windows Server we were deploying to. No remote desktop, no SSH, nothing — just Nomad and whatever we chose to run through it. So Nomad became everything. Restart a service? Nomad. Check backend logs? Nomad. Copy files onto the machine? We deployed Filebrowser through Nomad so we could do that too. The machine was, for all practical purposes, a black box we could only interact with through the web UI and job specs. This wasn't one rogue team. Th