Does that mean mesos is framework to prepare my app to take advantage of
clustering environment?

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Tom Arnfeld <[email protected]> wrote:

> The way I see it, Mesos is an API and framework for building and running
> distributed systems. CoreOS is an API and framework for running them.
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> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Jason Giedymin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> > 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
>>
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