Hi all, It's time again for your monthly dose of news from Apache Mesosland! Here's a recap of the happenings from September:
Mesos 1.7.0 Of course, the big news this past month is the new version! Apache Mesos 1.7.0 has been released; huge thanks to release managers Gastón Kleiman and Chun-Hung Hsiao, as well as all the contributors in the community, for all their hard work! For more information, see the release blog post <https://medium.com/apache-mesos/apache-mesos-1-7-improvements-to-performance-containerization-and-running-multiple-frameworks-f86875f3872a> . MesosCon 2018 MesosCon 2018 will be held in San Francisco from Nov. 5-7! We have an exciting lineup of talks this year, and the full schedule will be posted soon at https://mesoscon18.sched.com/ - buy your tickets now! Containerization A lot of containerization-related work has landed recently, including: - A new 'linux/devices' isolator, which automatically populates containers with devices that have been whitelisted in the '--allowed_devices' agent flag. - Better container network statistics. - Better container image pulling metrics. - Many bug fixes! Find more info in the agenda/notes document <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z55a7tLZFoRWVuUxz1FZwgxkHeugtc2nHR89skFXSpU/edit> . Performance Performance improvements have landed in a variety of components within the codebase including metrics, containerization, and resource allocation: - Additional work on the parallelization of master API requests. - More allocator optimizations, for improved resource allocation performance! - A new benchmark test fixture for the allocator. More information is in the agenda/notes document <https://docs.google.com/document/d/12hWGuzbqyNWc2l1ysbPcXwc0pzHEy4bodagrlNGCuQU/edit> . That's it for September! Look out for next month's update, and until then, see you on Mesos community Slack <https://mesos.slack.com/>! Cheers, Greg
