https://github.com/dcos/lashup
Just wanted to say that is some seriously good stuff -- a CRDT based, distributed masterless database, and what seems like a failure detector as well.
- https://github.com/dcos/dcos-vagrant
- https://github.com/dcos/dcos-docker
However, your point is somewhat valid in that Mesos requires you to allocate resources to everything you run, while resource allocation/enforcement is optional in Kubernetes. So you can easily run too many things and freeze your computer with Kubernetes, while Mesos is more conservative.
Mesos provide the core resource management and scheduling, think of it as the Kernel of an (DC) operating system. On top of Mesos you usually need:
1- Container/Workload Scheduling capability which is Marathon, now built in and integrated in DC/OS so you are just up and running in minutes 2- Management (Beautiful DC/OS UI and CLI) to manage all cluster and workload operations. It also includes Installer (of all components including Zookeeper, networking, ..etc) 3- App Store (Universe) that allows you to easily find and deploy latest packages such as Kafka, Cassandra and Spark with a single command, in regular Mesos you needed to find the Framework that worked with a specific version of Mesos, troubleshooting, ...etc. Now it's an app store like experience 4- Core infrastructure components such as very cool service discovery and loadbalancing (Minuteman), Storage drivers, CNI support
If you want to run docker containers, DC/OS also gives you the ability to use the docker daemon or the new Universal containerize (technology preview) which we just released.
Because mesos is very modular and very powerful, it was built to have modular implementation of all system components, but our team and our founders ran some of the largest implementations of Mesos (Twitter, Airbnb, ..etc) and they complied all thes best practices and the bits and pieces in DC/OS.
Hope that explains,
We have total respect for K8s, but I don't think you can claim winning just based on the community and stars.
OpenStack has a huge larger community of developers and advocates, but it is still haven't reached it's potential despite many years and incredible effort, seminars and summits
Also most of these next gen infr projects now (DC/OS which is powered by Mesos, K8s, docker swarm ) are converging feature wise, but they also have their strengths and weaknesses, some of these are temporary, some of these are structurally by design
Mesos (and DC/OS) were not just designed for scale, but also for extensibility and different workloads, which is why you can run Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, ..etc In production. None of these workloads run as traditional containers, with DC/OS they have their own operational logic such as honoring placement, simple installation, and upgrade, which is a core design function of the two-level scheduler
People usually complain that standing up Mesos is hard, which is why we we built DC/OS and open sourced it to give you the power of mesos and its awesome capabilities in managing containers and data workloads without going through all the effort to stitch everything yourself. Check it out at DCOS.io, I am sure you guys will be blown away.