Indeed, the focus is different for the two tools, something that is outlined with more words in the opening paragraph of this very submission:

> Kubernetes aims to provide all the features needed to run Linux container-based applications including cluster management, scheduling, service discovery, monitoring, secrets management and more.

> Nomad only aims to focus on cluster management and scheduling and is designed with the Unix philosophy of having a small scope while composing with tools like Consul for service discovery/service mesh and Vault for secret management.

In my experience you end up needing additional tools for everything in Kubernetes such as secrets, auth, etc. that’s the pluggable API selling point.

Might. But most of them are open source with healthy competition. With Nomad, the ecosystem is much smaller(basically one company), and can always be closed under a paywall (e.g. terraform enterprise)

Do you mean Nomad Enterprise? Which actually exist https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/enterprise :)