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Add to SafariWhen comparing Apache Mesos vs Nomad, the Slant community recommends Nomad for most people. In the question“What are the best cluster managers?” Nomad is ranked 2nd while Apache Mesos is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Nomad is:
Being focused on one thing only also has its advantages. For one, Nomad is very simple architecturally. There's only a single binary for both clients and servers, it also does not need any external services for any coordination or storage.
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Pros
Pro Good for existing workloads
If you have existing workloads, for example (Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, etc), Mesos makes it very easy to use these workloads together.
Pro Good with data processing applications
Many modern data processing applications (Hadoop, Kafka, Spark) run very well on Mesos. This is especially nice because they can all be run on the same resource pool, along with new container packaged apps.
Pro Scales very well
Mesos is a battle-proven piece of software which has been used in many large-scale projects (it's used by Twitter, Ebay and AirBnB) and can support hundreds of thousands of nodes.
Pro Simple, minimal architecture
Being focused on one thing only also has its advantages. For one, Nomad is very simple architecturally. There's only a single binary for both clients and servers, it also does not need any external services for any coordination or storage.
Pro Complex applications can easily be expressed through Nomad
Nomad uses a high-level abstraction of jobs. Jobs are essentially task groups (sets of tasks). Because of this, Nomad allows users to develop and manage complex applications easily, without having to think about the individual containers that make these applications.
Pro Easy to reason about
Nomad gives a lot of output and is intentionally kept simple. This makes maintenance easy and reduces downtimes.
Pro Big comapnies, like eBay and CircleCI use it
Cons
Con May be over-complicated for small clusters
When working with small clusters (less than a dozen nodes), Mesos may be an over-complicated solution since it's rather low level and designed for large clusters and scaling.
Con Only provides cluster management and scheduling
While other orchestration tools provide much more than just cluster management and scheduling (they also provide things like secrets management, discovery, monitoring, etc.), Nomad follows the Unix philosophy of doing only one thing and doing it well, providing only cluster management and scheduling.
