The Apache community developers have voted to cease development of the Apache Mesos cluster resource management platform and to transfer existing works to the Apache Attic repository for retired projects. Enthusiasts interested in the future development of Mesos are encouraged to continue development by creating a git repository fork of the project.
As a reason for the project's failure, one of the key Mesos developers mentions the inability to compete with the Kubernetes platform, which was created later, generalized the experiences of its predecessors, and was developed by Google, a company with extensive experience in building large clusters. Unlike Kubernetes, the Mesos project was created by graduate students who had little experience working with clusters, who were later hired by Twitter. The project developed through trial and error, and looking back, the developers acknowledge that many things could have been done differently. Mesos is far from the 'batteries included' principle, meaning it does not provide a unified set of components (for example, schedulers and services develop in separate projects), which has led to strong community fragmentation, complicated deployment processes, and made the project unfriendly for newcomers. User distrust has also been fueled by the actions of the startup Mesosphere, which attempted to develop commercial solutions based on Mesos.
It is worth noting that Mesos was originally developed by Twitter and was handed over to the Apache Foundation in 2010. Clusters based on Mesos have been deployed in companies such as Netflix, Samsung, Twitter, IBM, PayPal, and Yelp. Mesos combines the functions of a cluster resource sharing system, container orchestration, and a distributed core for managing task execution across a group of nodes. Mesos allows working with the cluster as a unified set of resources, abstracting processors, GPUs, memory, storage systems, and other computing resources on physical servers. virtual machinesWhen executing distributed applications and frameworks, Mesos takes on the task of dynamic allocation and isolation of available resources.
Source: opennet.ru
