What is DC/OS?
Unlike traditional operating systems, DC/OS spans multiple machines within a network, aggregating their resources to maximize utilization by distributed applications.
DC/OS is a tool in the Cluster Management category of a tech stack.
DC/OS is an open source tool with 2.4K GitHub stars and 486 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to DC/OS's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses DC/OS?
Companies
17 companies reportedly use DC/OS in their tech stacks, including immowelt GmbH, Decision6, and AN10.
Developers
91 developers on StackShare have stated that they use DC/OS.
DC/OS Integrations
Pros of DC/OS
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DC/OS's Features
- High Resource Utilization
- Mixed Workload Colocation
- Container Orchestration
- Resource Isolation
- Stateful Storage
- Package Repositories
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Command Line Interface
- Web Interface
- Elastic Scalability
- High Availability
- Zero Downtime Upgrades
- Service Discovery
- Load Balancing
- Production-Ready
DC/OS Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to DC/OS?
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.
Apache Mesos
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
OpenStack
OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
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.
