What are the minimum requirements for a Cloud on EC2 Micro for example and do you need a Load Balance?

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Hi @FelipoAntonoff

We don’t provide any minimum requirements because we don’t actively test Nomad in low-powered clusters, so it’s hard to say what will or will not work for you.

There have been some previous discussions here in the forum that may help you get some more insights:

Is there a low resource configuration or distribution of nomad (like k3s) or can it be run on a single weaker machine?

Hey. I am a developer and looking to add some simple scheduling, scaling potential, health monitoring / self healing, and perhaps most importantly rolling updates that don’t interrupt the live service - all of that, to my simple home hobby server. My first attempt involved kubernetes, but the learning curve and cpu usage made it a bad fit for the simple requirements I have. K3s seemed like the next logical step, but in my research for alternatives, nomad stuck out as an interesting option. I hav…

In general, I would say give it a try and see how it works for you, just make sure you have some resource monitoring setup