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TrustRadius Insights for Apache Mesos are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Easy Setup: Many users have found it incredibly easy to set up and get running in a cluster on standard hardware. They appreciate the straightforward software implementation of Mesos and its API-based nature, which contributes to its ease of use.

Stability: Users highly value the stability of Mesos, as they rarely encounter problems that are due to Mesos itself. This reliability allows them to confidently rely on Mesos for their distributed systems without worrying about frequent issues or disruptions.

Support for Docker Containers: Several reviewers emphasize the criticality of the support for running tasks within Docker containers. They find the Docker Containerizer important and appreciate the seamless integration with Mesos, enabling efficient task isolation and abstraction of physical resources from VMs or machines or applications.

Mesos Reviews

1 Review
Engineering

Completely unreliable and doesn't fit with modern workflows

Rating: 2 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Mesos to orchestrate and deploy Docker containers for our production web applications. Each app, backend or frontend, had its own Docker container and was automatically deployed using Circle CI. Mesos would pull from Docker Hub when a new version was released and restart the app with the new version.

Pros

  • Mesos let us orchestrate containers on our own hardware using our own DNS. We switched from Docker Cloud, which caused several major outages for us.

Cons

  • Unreliable deployments that would fail for no good reason. Sometimes our Docker container would be "restarting" forever because Mesos thought it didn't have enough resources to start the container.
  • Impossibly slow UI. Built in React under the hood with a lot of bloatware backed in, so loading the Mesos UI on a slow internet connection was painful.
  • No real logging solution - it would stream "console.log()" output to the UI, but searching for logs wasn't really possible without downloading a huge file.
  • No built-in support for redeploying containers from a CI. We had to create a service whose whole job was to expose an HTTP endpoint that restarted a container, and then made Circle CI ping the endpoint whenever we wanted to redeploy.

Likelihood to Recommend

There's really no reason to ever use Mesos. We switched over to Kubernetes and it's been a breath of fresh air - better CD support, easy CLI for browsing logs, no mysterious dangling redeploys. If you're looking for a tool to manage a fleet of Docker containers on VMs, Kubernetes beats Mesos by a wide margin.

Alternatives

Google Kubernetes Engine and Docker
Kubernetes is by far the best choice. More reliable and better developer experience. Mesos is prone to sporadic failures and not really designed to handle CI/CD-based deployments. Docker Cloud once shut down our entire cluster for "upgrades" without giving us any warning.
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Valeri Karpov
Principal Engineer in Engineering at Booster Fuels (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 51-200 employees)
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Apache Mesos
3 years of experience
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