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Apache Mesos

Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems

What is Apache Mesos?

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.
Apache Mesos is a tool in the Cluster Management category of a tech stack.
Apache Mesos is an open source tool with 5.2K GitHub stars and 1.7K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Apache Mesos's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Apache Mesos?

Companies
75 companies reportedly use Apache Mesos in their tech stacks, including Airbnb, Netflix, and Twitter.

Developers
217 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Apache Mesos.

Apache Mesos Integrations

Datadog, Rancher, Traefik, Azure Container Service, and DC/OS are some of the popular tools that integrate with Apache Mesos. Here's a list of all 17 tools that integrate with Apache Mesos.
Pros of Apache Mesos
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Easy scaling
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Web UI
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Fault-Tolerant
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Elastic Distributed System
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High-Available

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Apache Mesos's Features

  • Fault-tolerant replicated master using ZooKeeper
  • Scalability to 10,000s of nodes
  • Isolation between tasks with Linux Containers
  • Multi-resource scheduling (memory and CPU aware)
  • Java, Python and C++ APIs for developing new parallel applications
  • Web UI for viewing cluster state

Apache Mesos Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Apache Mesos?
Mesosphere
Mesosphere offers a layer of software that organizes your machines, VMs, and cloud instances and lets applications draw from a single pool of intelligently- and dynamically-allocated resources, increasing efficiency and reducing operational complexity.
OpenStack
OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
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
Yarn
Yarn caches every package it downloads so it never needs to again. It also parallelizes operations to maximize resource utilization so install times are faster than ever.
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Apache Mesos's Followers
419 developers follow Apache Mesos to keep up with related blogs and decisions.