MesosphereWhat is DC/OS?
Unlike traditional operating systems, DC/OS spans multiple machines within a network, aggregating their resources to maximize utilization by distributed applications.
DC/OS is a tool in the Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
High Resource UtilizationMixed Workload ColocationContainer OrchestrationResource IsolationStateful StoragePackage RepositoriesPublic CloudPrivate CloudOn-PremiseCommand Line InterfaceWeb InterfaceElastic ScalabilityHigh AvailabilityZero Downtime UpgradesService DiscoveryLoad BalancingProduction-Ready
DC/OS Pros & Cons
Pros of DC/OS
- ✓Easy to setup a HA cluster
- ✓Open source
- ✓Has templates to install via AWS and Azure
- ✓Easy Setup
- ✓Easy to get services running and operate them
Cons of DC/OS
No cons listed yet.
DC/OS Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to DC/OS?
Apache Mesos
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.
Nomad
Nomad is a cluster manager, designed for both long lived services and short lived batch processing workloads. Developers use a declarative job specification to submit work, and Nomad ensures constraints are satisfied and resource utilization is optimized by efficient task packing. Nomad supports all major operating systems and virtualized, containerized, or standalone applications.
YARN Hadoop
Its fundamental idea is to split up the functionalities of resource management and job scheduling/monitoring into separate daemons. The idea is to have a global ResourceManager (RM) and per-application ApplicationMaster (AM).
