Hope this helps some It doesn't as it doesn't even try to answer my question. Let me re- phrase it: what does mesos on the coreos cluster do that coreos itself doesn't do already?
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Jason Giedymin <[email protected]> wrote: > The value of coreos that immediately comes to mind since I do much work > with these tools: > > - the small foot print, it is a minimal os, meant to run containers. So > it throws everything not needed for that out. > - containers are the launch vehicle, thus deps are in container land. I > can run and test containers with ease, not having to worry about multiple > OSes. > - with etcd and fleet, coordinating the launch and modification of both > machines and cluster make it a breeze. Allowing you to do dynamic mesos > scaling up or down. I add nodes at will, across multiple cloud platforms, > ready to launch multitude of containers or just mesos. > - security. There is a defined write strategy. You cannot write willy > nilly to any location. > - all the above further allow auto OS updates, which is supported today > on all platforms that deploy coreos. This means more frequent updates since > the os is minimal, which should increase the security effectiveness when > compared to big box superstore OSes like Redhat or Ubuntu. Some platforms > charge quite a bit for managed updates of this frequency and level of > testing. > > Coreos allows me to keep apps in a configured container that I trust, > tested, and works time and time again. > > I see coreos as a compliment. > > As a fyi I'm available for questions, debugging, and client work in this > area. > > Hope this helps some, from real world usage. > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Jan 18, 2015, at 9:16 AM, Victor L <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am confused: what's the value of mesos on the top of coreos cluster? > Mesos provides distributed resource management, fault tolerance, etc., but > doesn't coreos provides the same things already? > > Thanks >
