OS kernel • Created in 2009 at UC Berkeley, hardened in Twitter • Top-level Apache project • Mesosphere, Twitter, and Airbnb are major users / contributors • Scales to 10,000s of nodes, production grade • Packages and support through Mesosphere • Google officially endorsed Mesos for Kubernetes • Built-in containerization, including Docker
stop, scale, update applications • Useful web interface • Highly available, no Single Point of Failure • Native Docker support (makes our lives easier) • Full featured REST API • Pluggable event bus • Rolling deploy / restart • Application health check • Artifact staging
job scheduler • Useful web interface • Highly available, no Single Point of Failure • Native Docker support • Full featured REST API • Easy scheduling with repeating intervals