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Marathon

Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale
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What is Marathon?

Marathon is an Apache Mesos framework for container orchestration. Marathon provides a REST API for starting, stopping, and scaling applications. Marathon is written in Scala and can run in highly-available mode by running multiple copies. The state of running tasks gets stored in the Mesos state abstraction.
Marathon is a tool in the Container Tools category of a tech stack.
Marathon is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Marathon's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Marathon?

Companies
30 companies reportedly use Marathon in their tech stacks, including SendGrid, Engineering, and Criteo.

Developers
50 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Marathon.

Marathon Integrations

Docker, Traefik, Apache Mesos, Mesosphere, and Continuous Delivery Service are some of the popular tools that integrate with Marathon. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with Marathon.
Pros of Marathon
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Powerful UI
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Service Discovery
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Load Balancing
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Health Checks

Marathon Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Marathon?
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
npm
npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.
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Marathon's Followers
91 developers follow Marathon to keep up with related blogs and decisions.