Nomad is designed to be a highly-available, quorum-based cluster scheduler. Nomad deployments need to have three or more server nodes and one or more client nodes.
That said, Nomad does provide a dev mode which enables you to run Nomad with a single agent process. However, Nomad dev agents do behave slightly different than non-dev agents. To create a more authentic feeling experience, you might want to run Nomad with a configuration