Define Application Placement Preferences

Express placement preferences for job allocations within your cluster using affinities and spread. Prevent priority inversion with preemption.

Advanced Scheduling with Nomad

Learn about advanced scheduling features including affinity and spread.

Enable and use preemption for service and batch jobs in Nomad to keep critical jobs running by evicting lower priority work.

Express placement preferences for your jobs using affinities. Affinities act like soft constraints, and jobs using them will...

Prevent failures across a physical domain such as datacenter or rack from affecting application availability by using spread...

Enable and configure a job for memory oversubscription to pack more jobs in a cluster that have bursty, spiky, or front-loaded...