Apache Mesos

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Apache Mesos is an open-source project for managing computer clusters. It was developed at the University of California, Berkeley.

Technology

Mesos uses Linux Cgroups to provide isolation for CPU, memory, I/O, and the file system.

Mesos is compared to Google's Borg scheduler, one of the platforms Google uses internally to manage and deploy its services

Apache Aurora

Apache Aurora is a Mesos framework for long-running services and cron jobs. It was developed by Twitter starting in 2010 and open-sourced in late 2013.

Chronos

Chronos is a flexible, distributed cron-like system that can express dependencies between jobs.

Marathon (Marathon)

Marathon was built as a PaaS / container orchestration system that scales to thousands of physical servers.

Container orchestration

• Marathon
• Rancher
• Shipyard
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Swarm
• Mesos

See also

• Cluster manager
• Docker

Favorite site

• Apache Mesos
• Apache Mesos - Wikipedia
• How to use Apache Mesos (examples)
• Apache Mesos - Cluster Resource Management
• (Infra) What is Apache Mesos (Marathon)? | by chrisjune | Medium
• Running mesos in a Docker Container
• Docker-related solutions Mesos & CoreOS
• Joinc - Mesos
• Introduction to Apache Mesos
• MapR, Mesos, Marathon, Docker, Spark ¹
• Summary of Mesos & CoreOS & etc.
• Docker & Mesos - on their dynamics

References