
Charmed Kubernetes
5.2#25 in container orchestration softwareLinuxSelf-hosted
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| Fact | Charmed Kubernetes | HashiCorp Nomad |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 | 2012 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Integrations | The product offers integrations with storage, networking, load balancing, logging, monitoring and alerting tools. | Nomad integrates with Terraform, Consul, Vault and Waypoint, and its catalog lists 86 integrations including task drivers, observability plugins, packs and autoscaler components. |
| Purpose | Charmed Kubernetes provides tools to build Kubernetes clusters and deliver containers as a service across an enterprise. | Nomad schedules and orchestrates containers, binaries, and virtual machines across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. |
| Security | Ubuntu's Kubernetes page describes Charmed Kubernetes as secure by default and CNCF conformant. | Nomad's security mechanisms include mutual TLS, access control lists, namespaces, and Sentinel policies; some multi-tenant features are Enterprise-only. |
It suits organizations operating Kubernetes on self-hosted Linux infrastructure across cloud, virtualized or bare-metal environments. Telco and specialized hardware workloads are also addressed.
Nomad suits teams that need to schedule mixed application workloads across self-hosted, cloud, on-premises, or edge infrastructure. It may also fit organizations using Consul or Vault integrations and Sentinel policy controls.