Been using nomad for a few years now at the customer I got the question couple of weeks ago from some colleagues if nomad could be used to replace docker-compose.

The reason behind the question is mainly to not vendor lock yourself for local development with the whole docker eco system.

Since I like a certain level of challenge and I do believe it's a valid use case I gave it a try.

This resulted in a nomad-local-development repository. The 2 major hurdles to take where to use one file like docker-compose.yml and dns resolving between the containers.

The …

a few months ago I configured a thin client as my home server to replace the previous raspberry pi setup.

During that migration I moved over all native services within docker containers. One of those services being a pi-hole setup to block ad serving domains on dns level and to have a dns cache within our LAN to gain a bit of speed.

It has been running ever since without any issue and worked pretty well.

When cloudflare announced their fast and privacy based DNS resolver I got a bit intrigued by their DNS over HTTPS feature. Especially since our …