One of the many features of Nomad that I like is the ability to run things other than Docker containers. It has built-in support for Java, QEMU, and Rkt, although the latter is deprecated. Besides these inbuilt “Task Drivers” there are community maintained ones too, covering Podman, LXC, Firecraker and BSD Jails, amongst others. The one I want to talk about today, however, is called exec. This Task Driver runs any given executable, so if you have an application which you don’t want (or ...
