Compute
Mesos Borgs Google’s Kubernetes Right Back
The rivalry between Mesos, Kubernetes, and OpenStack just keeps getting more interesting, and instead of a winner take all situation, it has become more of a take what you need approach. …
Mesos
Cloud
Building The Stack Above And Below OpenStack
It has been six years now since the “Austin” release of the OpenStack cloud controller was released by the partnership of Rackspace Hosting, which contributed its Swift object storage, and NASA, which contributed its Nova compute controller. …
Cloud
Mesos Reaches Milestone, Adds Native Docker
The battle between the Mesos and Kubernetes tools for managing applications on modern clusters continues to heat up, with the former reaching its milestone 1.0 with a “universal containerizer” feature that supports native Docker container formats and a shiny new API stack that is a lot more friendly and flexible than the manner in which APIs are implemented in systems management software these days. …
Compute
Mesos Clusters Growing To Monster Sizes
Scale is in the eye of the beholder, and it depends on the nature of the workload. …
Control
Kubernetes Container Juggling Reaches Towards Hyperscale
Putting legacy monolithic applications into production is like moving giant boulders across the landscape. …
Control
Bloomberg Trades Static Clusters For Homegrown Mesos
When it comes to trading stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments, Bloomberg is usually in the middle with its eponymous terminals, which have more than 325,000 subscribers worldwide. …
Cloud
Azure CTO Plots The Future Of Cloud Building
A public cloud is, at its most basic level, a giant shared computing facility that spans a datacenter or multiple datacenters, and as such, it needs a kind of operating system of its own to make the collection of servers, storage, and switches behave as a single machine to both its users and to the company that is operating the cloud. …
Control
What Makes Containers At Scale So Difficult
As has been demonstrated, it is relatively easy to launch tens of thousands of containers on a single host. …
Control
Grid Engine Brings Massive Scale To Docker, Eyes Kubernetes
Sometimes, the customers get out ahead of the vendor community and they lead. …
Cloud
Kubernetes Has A Ways To Go To Scale Like Google, Mesos
As the first major open source code ever donated by Google to the world and a key component of a containerized software stack, the Kubernetes container controller has generated a lot of enthusiasm and is seeing widespread and early adoption for those who want to deploy Docker or rkt containers to host their applications. …