Why the data center needs an operating system
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Why the data center needs an operating system
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Re: Why the data center needs an operating system
#2In light of all the excitement around Docker & containers, it's important to note that Mesos has been using cgroups / LXC (for isolation) since its inception.
Mesos paper: http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2011/nsdi_mesos.pdf
Re: Why the data center needs an operating system
#3While not a complete data center operating system, Mesos, along with some of the distributed applications running on top, provide some of the essential building blocks from which a full data center operating system can be built: the kernel (Mesos), a distributed init.d (Marathon/Aurora), cron (Chronos), and more.
Interested in learning more about or contributing to Mesos? Check out mesos.apache.org and follow @ApacheMesos on Twitter. We’re a growing community with users at companies like Twitter, Airbnb, Hubspot, OpenTable, eBay/Paypal, Netflix, Groupon, and more.
Re: Why the data center needs an operating system
#4The dataceneter == the new form factor
Re: Why the data center needs an operating system
#5isn't this what all the hype behind CoreOS is about?
Re: Why the data center needs an operating system
#6The dataceneter == the new form factor
What makes you say that?
Re: Why the data center needs an operating system
#7The thing I like about Mesos is that when you approach your problem you are planning for High Availability from the beginning. You don't get that with Docker. Docker let's you make your provisioning stable and repeatable, but you don't get any advantage on HA. You are on your own with Docker. But, Mesos guides the whole architecture of your app towards HA which is nice.
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#8isn't this what all the hype behind CoreOS is about?
Well the main idea behind Mesos is to create an aggregation layer that spans server capacity in local and remote datacenters. This aggregation does not tightly bind the servers into a shared memory system, but rather treats them like a giant resource pool onto which applications can be deployed. It is a bit like the inverse of server virtualization really.
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#9Re: Why the data center needs an operating system
#10Mesos doesn’t run one big distributed app across servers in a cluster, but rather interleaves the workloads on nodes in the cluster to maximize the utilization of compute, memory, and I/O resources on the cluster. Mesos can run on bare metal clusters or on machines that have some level of virtualization on them to provide some isolation between workloads running on the same machine. Google did a lot of the original work to create control groups, or cgroups, a lightweight application container for Linux, which is the basis for all LXC containers.