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by tknaup 3379 days ago
disclosure: I'm a founder of Mesosphere.

For most people k8s (like any other distributed system) is pretty hard to operate and wrap their head around. The goal of DC/OS is to make building and operating distributed systems easy. Mesos is pretty different from k8s. It doesn't have an API for microservice developers for example, instead it has low level primitives similar to an operating system kernel, on which you can build any software. We recently launched an SDK to make that even easier, along with a bunch of open source and commercial software that uses it, for example Cassandra/Datastax, Kafka/Confluent, Redis, Elastic, Couchbase, Alluxio. So DC/OS ends up looking a lot more like an entire cloud platform like GCP, which offers managed k8s, a managed database (BigTable), machine learning and so on. Under the hood it all runs on Google's proprietary Borg, which has some similarities with Mesos (Google is a sponsor of the lab where Mesos was created).

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Could you please disclose in what time frame would be available "managed k8s" through Universe or in some other way. Cause currently there is an issue with using kube-mesos-framework and DC/OS as I got.