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layout: "docs"
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page_title: "Nomad Schedulers"
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sidebar_current: "docs-jobspec-schedulers"
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Learn about Nomad's various schedulers.
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# Scheduler Types
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Nomad has three scheduler types that can be used when creating your
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[job](/docs/jobspec/): `service`, `batch` and `system`. Here we will describe
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the differences between each of these schedulers.
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## Service
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The `service` scheduler is designed for scheduling long lived services that
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should never go down. As such, the `service` scheduler ranks a large portion
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of the nodes that meet the jobs constraints and selects the optimal node to
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place a task group on. The `service` scheduler uses a best fit scoring algorithm
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influenced by Google work on Borg. Ranking this larger set of candidate nodes
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increases scheduling time but provides greater guarantees about the optimality
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of a job placement, which given the service workload is highly desirable.
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## Batch
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Batch jobs are much less sensitive to short term performance fluctuations and
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are short lived, finishing in a few minutes to a few days. Although the `batch`
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scheduler is very similar to the `service` scheduler, it makes certain
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optimizations for the batch workload. The main distinction is that after finding
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the set of nodes that meet the jobs constraints it uses the power of two choices
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described in Berkeley's Sparrow scheduler to limit the number of nodes that are
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ranked.
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## System
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The `system` scheduler is used to register jobs that should be run on all
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clients that meet the job's constraints. The `system` scheduler is also invoked
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when clients join the cluster or transition into the ready state. This means
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that all registered `system` jobs will be re-evaluated and their tasks will be
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placed on the newly available nodes if the constraints are met.
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This scheduler type is extremely useful for deploying and managing tasks that
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should be present on every node in the cluster. Since these tasks are being
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managed by Nomad, they can take advantage of job updating, rolling deploys,
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service discovery and more.
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