We are using Mesos/Marathon/Chronos/Docker/Bamboo on 200+ nodes on Google compute. Both for Data processing workloads and web applications (intensives advertising real time bidding servers). Using Mesosphere Packages, Salt, it was quite easy. Of course some services and some ssl stuff were a bit hairy but it's been working very great. Now I'm waiting for the availability of Mesosphere DCOS to come to GCP. Tried it on AWS and, god it's awesome. Makes spinning services like a breeze and deploying new product instantly.

I pointed at an open-source project by Cisco that pretty much sidesteps them entirely.

Obviously, CoreOS is going to start wanting your money pretty soon, as well.

Having worked for one of the earliest commercial linux distributors, I have little faith in such an effort to get anywhere. Red Hat and Canonical can barely make a dime.

Mesosphere isn't really an alternative to etcd, though. It relies on Zookeeper, which isn't perfect, but is much more battle torn than either Consul or etcd.

I have high hopes for something to replace Zookeeper, but I'm not deploying something in infancy which inherently can't heal from outages.

> Red Hat and Canonical can barely make a dime.

Redhat Fiscal 2015 revenue: $1.79 billion. Net income: $180 million.

Their fastest growing business areas are incidentally exactly in this space: OpenShift, OpenStack and Ceph.

what's your issue with Zk. It might be overweight but so far in ourdeployments it behaves a lot better than etcd. But if you're interested there's a lot being done with etcd and consul. I haven't seen etcd handling the kind of mixed data-web services that zookeeper was built for.

> Also, I've spoken to Mesos

Mesos is an Apache project, did you mean Mesosphere?

Yeah, we're clearly talking about Mesosphere.

The context makes that a silly question.

Only if you alraedy know Mesos and that there's a company called Mesosphere.