[eecc]

Hmm, that k8s “has won” might make me a bit sad - not that I’ve ever gasped some fresh air out of the stranglehold of AWS - as I was impressed with Mesos.

Can you share some 1st person opinions on Mesos, and where K8s is a step forward, backward or aside?

TIA

[tveita]

Having moved from Mesos to Kubernetes, Kubernetes just felt more mature. Working solutions for stateful sets, service discovery with DNS, flexible scheduling with affinity and tolerance, saner resource limits, a good CLI tool.

It's not a completely fair comparison since we also were able to offload persistent storage to Google Cloud, which is one of the harder problems IMO.

I think Mesos has improved since then, but it always felt like they were a bit behind.

In general Kubernetes feels like it is designed by people with relevant experience. Especially compared to our earlier experiments with Docker Compose files. People are praising their simplicity, but they left us solving a lot of hard problems that Kubernetes solves for us better than we could have done.

[manigandham]

Why is it sad? It's great that we can finally standardize and use a single powerful system that is very capable but also improving quickly.