What is Apache Aurora?
Apache Aurora is a service scheduler that runs on top of Mesos, enabling you to run long-running services that take advantage of Mesos' scalability, fault-tolerance, and resource isolation.
Apache Aurora is a tool in the Cluster Management category of a tech stack.
Apache Aurora is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Apache Aurora's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Apache Aurora?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use Apache Aurora in their tech stacks, including Twitter, KAVAK, and Amperity.
Developers
58 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Apache Aurora.
Apache Aurora Integrations
Blog Posts
Apache Aurora's Features
- Deployment and scheduling of jobs
- The abstraction a “job” to bundle and manage Mesos tasks
- A rich DSL to define services
- Health checking
- Failure domain diversity
- Instant provisioning
Apache Aurora Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Apache Aurora?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Marathon
Marathon is an Apache Mesos framework for container orchestration. Marathon provides a REST API for starting, stopping, and scaling applications. Marathon is written in Scala and can run in highly-available mode by running multiple copies. The state of running tasks gets stored in the Mesos state abstraction.
Apache Mesos
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.