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Add to SafariWhen comparing Rancher vs Marathon on Apache Mesos, the Slant community recommends Rancher for most people. In the question“What are the best Docker orchestration tools?” Rancher is ranked 5th while Marathon on Apache Mesos is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Rancher is:
Intuitive and easy to use web gui.
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Pros
Pro Web GUI cluster management
Intuitive and easy to use web gui.
Pro Mult-environment cluster system
- Cattle (Rancher default)
- Swarm
- Kubernetes
- Mesos
Pro Service catalog is easy
Rancher provides a catalog of application templates that make it easy to deploy complex stacks.
- Rancher certified catalog
- Community service catalog
Pro Self-service application stack for self-monitoring
Great contributions from the co community who build the service stack catalog.
One of them is the "Prometheus" template which deploys a collection of containers for monitoring a platform. It's capable of querying all aspects of your environment with some nice pre-built dashboards.
Pro Access control polices
Detailed role-based access control policies can be defined independently for each cluster.
Pro Extremely fault-tolerant
Mesos handles (HA) master or agent failover; Marathon HA can survive scheduler failover; and Marathon automatically restarts failed tasks to maintain the desired number of task instances.
Pro Mesos is battle-tested at scale in production
Running all of Twitter, Apple's Siri, etc.
Pro Scalable to 10,000s of containers
Pro Free and Open Source
Pro Also supports non-Docker cgroups containers
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