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Kubernetes

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Nomad and SwarmKit. 2 alternatives to Kubernetes, in Go. Compare fit, licence, stars and the latest signed release.

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2 alternatives to Kubernetes
ToolFitStarsLicenceTermsSelf-hostedLanguageLatestLast push
NomadPartial17kOtherSource availableYesGov2.0.72026-10-16
SwarmKitPartial3.7kApache-2.0Open sourceYesGov2.1.22026-10-16

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NomadPartial

Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

Schedules containers and plain binaries with its own job spec; far smaller ecosystem.

Language
Go
Licence
Other
Stars
17k
Latest
v2.0.7
Last push
2026-10-16
SwarmKitPartial

A toolkit for orchestrating distributed systems at any scale. It includes primitives for node discovery, raft-based consensus, task scheduling and more.

Docker-native clustering and scheduling with far fewer features and extension points.

Language
Go
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
3.7k
Latest
v2.1.2
Last push
2026-10-16

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Go
Licence
Apache-2.0
Stars
128k
Last push
2026-10-18

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