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Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that distributes resources across applications and databases. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Mesos Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-mesos/discuss) Overview by Leah Liebler (Data-driven Marketer.) 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Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") II Verified User in Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/26/2016 "Experiment" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Mesos? We are suppose to prepare the necessary execution environments from testing to production and everything in between. Using Docker alongside Mesos allows us to encapsulate execution environments inside the container. In coordination with Mesos it allocates a suitable machine for the service, and deploys it by pulling it from our private Docker hub onto the allocated machine.However, for external software like ElasticSearch we have no need for continuous integration and we release them directly from our local dev environment. To handle this use case we developed Shovel, which we plan to open-source shortly. It automates the process from building the Docker image containing the microservice to finally releasing them to the public. To release a microservice today we only have to prepare a Dockerfile and provide basic configuration. The rest of the release process is then completely handled by Shovel. To further simplify bootstrapping, we have a service template that contains commonly used components and allows us release a new microservice in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Mesos? Mesos is still in its early days, probably best exemplified by the very sub-1.0 version numbers. New Mesos releases often include important bug fixes but upgrading has been a pain point for us due to the number of moving parts that led to catch-22 situations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Mesos: I would definitely recommend Apache Mesos to others for its user friendliness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Mesos solving and how is that benefiting you? we have no need for continuous integration and we release them directly from our local dev environment. To handle this use case we developed Shovel, which we plan to open-source shortly. It automates the process from building the Docker image containing the microservice to finally releasing them to the public. To release a microservice today we only have to prepare a Dockerfile and provide basic configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") II Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/26/2016 "Apache Mesos review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Mesos? In Pre-Mesos we had to prepare the necessary execution environments from testing to production and everything in between. Using Docker alongside Mesos allows us to encapsulate execution environments inside the container. That frees us from the effort of provisioning the infrastructure of every new microservice we want to release. However, for external software like ElasticSearch we have no need for continuous integration and we release them directly from our local dev environment. To handle this use case we developed Shovel, which we plan to open-source shortly. It automates the process from building the Docker image containing the microservice to finally releasing them to the public. To release a microservice today we only have to prepare a Dockerfile and provide basic configuration. The basic configuration includes settings like public URL endpoint or amount of required CPU and memory resources. The rest of the release process is then completely handled by Shovel. To further simplify bootstrapping, we have a service template that contains commonly used components and allows us release a new microservice in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Mesos? Mesos is still in its early days, probably best exemplified by the very sub-1.0 version numbers. New Mesos releases often include important bug fixes but upgrading has been a pain point for us due to the number of moving parts that led to catch-22 situations. As an example, we experienced memory leaks with Docker 1.6 but were not able to upgrade for some time even though the bug got fixed in Docker 1.8. Upgrading Docker would have required upgrading to a Mesos version (0.23) that was untested with Marathon version 0.10. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Mesos solving and how is that benefiting you? Financial Applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/15/2016 "I like mesos" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Mesos? Mesos is a good tool and I have found it to scale quite well without being in the way. There is also a community around it, and Google's encouragement helps. I can't speak to Mesosphere DCOS because I haven't used it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Mesos? Some aspects of the design can be problematic. Particularly, the way the resource allocation is designed makes it harder to build "intelligent" allocator modules into the mesos master that can decide who to offer resources to. On one hand, fairly simple to write an allocator, but on the other, a custom alllocator can't (last I checked) easily access any data it wants about the current state of the mesos agents and frameworks. Progress is being done in this area, though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Mesos: Be skeptical of projects like Kubernetes-Mesos. Use Docker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Mesos solving and how is that benefiting you? I build software and distributed systems to create products. Mesos is a core technology that I've built on top of, so the benefit it provides can perhaps be summarized as "enablement." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") UI Verified User in Internet Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/15/2016 "I am a mesos framework developer and operator for a large production mesos cluster." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Mesos? Mesos is great for helping ops teams simplify and condense their infrastructure. The tools is very solid and we have had very few problems with it. There is also a large and growing community of developers creating different frameworks for mesos to suite different needs. We've created our own framework on top of mesos that runs almost the entire product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Mesos? Documentation can be lacking in some cases, making it difficult to get started in certain areas. Getting started on developing a framework, or getting the mesos cluster up and running the first time can be tricky steps. However, other community members or framework developers often have information that can fill in the gaps for these cases. Note: we operate our own mesos cluster and do not use a hosted service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Mesos solving and how is that benefiting you? We have mainly used mesos to condense our infrastructure, add stability, and have greater operational simplicity for our ops team. Once we built our own framework on top of it, we were able to take a large amount of the ops-related workload off of developers to allow them to focus on the product itself, which improved the efficiency of many of the teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/16/2016 "A Complete Data center kernel " 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Mesos? Frame Work APIs and Language Bindings - Lets us provision any types of workload Apache modules - Lets us override most of the functionality or add new functionality without touching the core Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Mesos? Its completely written C++ , Should be able to add modules written in other programming langs Should be able to distribute it as a single binary (one for master , slave) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Mesos solving and how is that benefiting you? Planning to promote Apache Mesos as a centralized resource manager a public cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/11/2016 "Great, works good. " 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Mesos? Good features. Easy to install. Slaves to master connections work great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Mesos? Frameworks to work with mesos are limited. Simpler UI? Jobs should be auto rescheduled if a slave goes down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Mesos: Check out singularity which is a framework that works well with mesos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Mesos solving and how is that benefiting you? Scheduling jobs, tasks etc. Benefits include easy maintenance and monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Internet](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Internet") CI Verified User in Internet Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/14/2016 "CTO" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Mesos? Managing the whole DC like one single machine for all distributed system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Mesos? Too hard to write executor Not proper for real time system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Mesos: Ecosystem creation in WW, including more participants ; more focus on APJ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Mesos solving and how is that benefiting you? Reducing complexity in DC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Apache Mesos? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Apache Mesos ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-mesos/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is Apache Mesos used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-apache-mesos-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-mesos/discuss) ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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