Nomad is the heir apparent for swarm deployments that don't want to take on all the extra complexity of k8s. I do prefer a docker-compose style yaml manifest file compared to hcl however.
Oh, I’m the opposite. I find HCL so much nicer that when I was attempting to use k8s for my home servers I decided to do it with Terraform. Now I’m running Nomad, Consul, and Vault.
