Official docs outline
12 sections- Architecture
Servers, clients, regions and the Nomad cluster model.
- Jobs, Groups and Tasks
Job specification: job, group, task, and their stanzas.
- Scheduling
Evaluations, plans, bin packing, spread, and preemption.
- Task Drivers
Docker, exec, java and other task drivers.
- Networking
Network modes, ports, CNI and service networking.
- Service Discovery
Registering services and health checks.
- Rolling Updates and Deployments
Update stanza, canaries, deployments and rollbacks.
- Job Types
Service, batch, system and sysbatch jobs.
- ACL and Security
ACL policies, tokens and securing the cluster.
- Variables and Templates
Template rendering, Nomad variables and secrets.
- Consensus and Gossip
Raft consensus and server clustering.
- Autoscaling
Horizontal application and cluster scaling.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.
Versions and support
6 release lines 2.1.1 latest release, Oct 29, 2026
| Line | Released | Latest | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | Oct 27, 2026 | 2.1.1 | Supported |
| 2.0 | Apr 21, 2026 | 2.0.7 | Until Apr 30, 2028 |
| 1.11 | Nov 11, 2025 | 1.11.3 | Ended Oct 31, 2026 |
| 1.10 | Apr 9, 2025 | 1.10.5 | Until Apr 30, 2027 LTS |
| 1.9 | Oct 10, 2024 | 1.9.7 | Ended Apr 21, 2026 |
| 1.8 | May 28, 2024 | 1.8.4 | Ended Apr 30, 2026 LTS |
Source: endoflife.date