SAPWhat is Gardener?
Many Open Source tools exist which help in creating and updating single Kubernetes clusters. However, the more clusters you need the harder it becomes to operate, monitor, manage and keep all of them alive and up-to-date. And that is exactly what project Gardener focuses on.
Gardener is a tool in the Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Central dashboard for comfortable interaction - enables users to easily keep track of their clusters’ health, and operators to monitor, debug, and analyze the clusters they are responsible forCommand line client - simplifies administrative tasks by introducing easy higher-level abstractions with simple commands that allow to condense and multiplex information & actions from/to a set of seed and shoot clusters
Gardener Pros & Cons
Pros of Gardener
- ✓It works across clouds and on-prem
Cons of Gardener
No cons listed yet.
Gardener Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Gardener?
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).
