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Apache Mesos vs Rancher: What are the differences?
What is Apache Mesos? Develop and run resource-efficient distributed systems. Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.
What is Rancher? Open Source Platform for Running a Private Container Service. Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
Apache Mesos can be classified as a tool in the "Cluster Management" category, while Rancher is grouped under "Container Tools".
Some of the features offered by Apache Mesos are:
- Fault-tolerant replicated master using ZooKeeper
- Scalability to 10,000s of nodes
- Isolation between tasks with Linux Containers
On the other hand, Rancher provides the following key features:
- Manage Hosts, Deploy Containers, Monitor Resources
- User Management & Collaboration
- Native Docker APIs & Tools
"Easy scaling" is the top reason why over 19 developers like Apache Mesos, while over 89 developers mention "Easy to use" as the leading cause for choosing Rancher.
Rancher is an open source tool with 11.8K GitHub stars and 1.31K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Rancher's open source repository on GitHub.
Packet, Redox Engine, and VCCloud are some of the popular companies that use Rancher, whereas Apache Mesos is used by PayPal, SendGrid, and HubSpot. Rancher has a broader approval, being mentioned in 88 company stacks & 35 developers stacks; compared to Apache Mesos, which is listed in 61 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.
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Rancher- Consume too much unnecessary resource by just running rancher agent alone;
- Hard to recover from system failure
- Bad performance of load balancing (compare to dokcer swarm built-in LB or others).
Apache MesosBuilt Mesos master/slave as a cluster among serveral cloud service providers, such as Amazon web services, Google cloud engine, Joyent Elastic Container, and AliCloud, and also personal desktop.
RancherThe whole infrastructure is managed through Rancher. It provides a simple interface to all the underlying tools - Docker, HAProxy (automatically configures load balancer from the containers).
RancherCurrently looking to move to Swarm or Kubernetes due to a few issues I have with Rancher.
RancherWe use Rancher for container orchestration and automated deployment pipelines.
Apache MesosBamboo + Marathon + Mesos (+ Docker) => awesome tool set to building PaaS.
Apache MesosAs a part of big data machine learning stack (SMACK).
RancherEnterprise-grade Kubernetes Distribution
RancherPull from CI/CD for live demo