Slashdot Mirror
Data Center Management Darling Mesosphere Embraces Open Source (fiercecio.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Cloud computing startup Mesosphere has opted to open-source its data center management platform. This move is backed by Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Cisco Systems and roughly 60 other tech partners. The three-year-old San Francisco company's datacenter operating system (DCOS) was built as an operating system for all services in a data center to function as one pool of resources. Capabilities include the quick, app store-like installation of more than 20 complex distributed systems, including HDFS, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka and Apache Cassandra, Mesosphere said in an announcement. Although some of the company's technologies were already available as open source, others were propriety until now. Mesosphere said it welcomes additional enterprises interested in partnering on this open source project.Wired has more details on this in its slightly enthusiastic report titled You want to build an empire like Google's? This is your OS.
and why the *%&£ should I care?
Because Wired says that if you pay them $1 a week then they can tell you how to build the next Google.
1) Pay Wired $1 a week.
2) Build the next Google.
3) Profit!!!
Clearly something every Slashdot reader can appreciate.
and why the *%&£ should I care?
Agreed (except I'm American, so I'd probably say "why the *%&$ should I care" instead).
Maybe it's just because I'm not a data center manager, or whatever, but I think I nodded off three times while reading the headline. I perked up briefly when I heard the word "embraced", but it was a false alarm.
I kind of miss when the Slashvertisements were for things it might actually be theoretically possible for me to someday use or buy.
> I kind of miss when the Slashvertisements were for things it might actually be theoretically possible for me to someday use or buy.
But you /will/ be able to use or buy platforms running on this thing ;-)
I'm just gonna leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
The summary is full of buzzwords and buzzphrases like "cloud", "startup", "pool of resources", "app store-like installation", "HDFS", "Apache Spark", "Apache Kafka", "Apache Cassandra", "open source", and "enterprise".
So why the heck isn't the Rust programming language listed, too?!
Rust is the premiere buzzword at this time. If we're having a buzzwordfest then Rust needs to be mentioned too, even if it doesn't have anything to do with the submission.
The parent shouldn't be modded "Flamebait". It's a perfectly legitimate question: why should we care about this?
For those of us who have been around a long time, this reminds us of the Open Software Foundation, X/Open, The Open Group, Common Open Software Environment, and the various other consortia and initiatives of the 1980s and early 1990s.
And the fact that many here won't have any idea what any of those are just goes to show how irrelevant they can be!
How the heck is this any different from those?
I attended UberConf last year in Denver, and heard a presentation regarding DCOS. It is an interesting project, it was extremely easy to configure, I basically had an 8 node cluster running in AWS in minutes. It was also very easy to install kubernetes, and several other "cloudy" applications.
If I remember correctly, all I had to do was something like
dcos install kubernetes
I took it down due to lack of interest within my org. But may resurrect it to check it out again.
Just sayin
Isn't the whole "all computer resources, even from those on the network can be access from /dev" what the Plan 9 OS was based on?
Having trialled DCOS for a prototype project last year and looking at the limited comments here on ./ I have to make it clear: Mesosphere is an overly underestimated precious thing, a simplified and consistent platform in an otherwise messy jungle of silly incompatible combinations of highly incomplete and insecurely packaged (if packaged at all) stuff that is the containers world.
Direct comparison is of course hard to make since we are talking different levels (IaaS vs PaaS/microservices if you like), but if I think to the relative complexity of setting up an Openstack cluster (and then, somehow, a PaaS platform on top of it) rather than setting up a relatively easy Mesosphere cluster (that already does PaaS through Mesos+Marathon): I'd definitely and happily go for the second option.
From the blog post:
"Partners include cloud computing providers such as Microsoft -- whose dedication to open source software was a catalyst for the project's creation"
And that's not nearly as an odd statement as it would have been two years ago.