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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) vs. Apache Mesos

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon EKS

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises, available on AWS or on-premise through Amazon EKS Anywhere.

    $0.10

    per month

    Mesos

    Score2.6 out of 10
    N/AN/AN/A
    Pricing
    Amazon EKSMesos
    Editions & Modules
    Amazon EKS Cluster
    $.10
    per hour of each cluster created
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon EKSMesos
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Features
    Amazon EKSMesos
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Apache Mesos
    Feature
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
    8.9
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Apache Mesos
    -
    Ratings
    Security and Isolation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cluster Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Storage Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discovery Tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Amazon EKSMesos
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.3 out of 10
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon EKSMesos
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon EKSMesos
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It is well suited when you want to have a Kubernetes cluster in AWS Cloud and want to avoid all the management overhead of maintaining your own cluster in terms of the control plane. EKS seems to be lacking in features when compared with AKS and GKE. Backups, service mesh, and monitoring have a lot of room for improvements.
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    Apache
    There's really no reason to ever use Mesos. We switched over to Kubernetes and it's been a breath of fresh air - better CD support, easy CLI for browsing logs, no mysterious dangling redeploys. If you're looking for a tool to manage a fleet of Docker containers on VMs, Kubernetes beats Mesos by a wide margin.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Upgrade the kubernetes clusters to the latest version with a single click
    • Auto scaling policies to automatically scale the nodes
    • Detailed logs and events on the cluster within the EKS clusters portal, cloudwatch logs and metrics
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    Apache
    • Mesos may have many frameworks. If you have Mesos installed on your servers, you may use it for many kinds of tasks. Today we're running only web applications but the idea is to install a different framework for big data soon.
    • There is a good community growing around it.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • AWSIAM integration with Kubernetes RBAC could be better.
    • Enabling some add-ons like service mesh, and monitoring will be nice instead of having to install them yourself after the creation of the cluster.
    • EKS bootstrap time could be faster ...
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    Apache
    • Unreliable deployments that would fail for no good reason. Sometimes our Docker container would be "restarting" forever because Mesos thought it didn't have enough resources to start the container.
    • Impossibly slow UI. Built in React under the hood with a lot of bloatware backed in, so loading the Mesos UI on a slow internet connection was painful.
    • No real logging solution - it would stream "console.log()" output to the UI, but searching for logs wasn't really possible without downloading a huge file.
    • No built-in support for redeploying containers from a CI. We had to create a service whose whole job was to expose an HTTP endpoint that restarted a container, and then made Circle CI ping the endpoint whenever we wanted to redeploy.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Cluster maintanence is reduced, easier to deploy resources, great observability insights
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    Apache
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Apache
    No real support channel, the Mesos GitHub issues list was the only one we found and it wasn't particularly helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    It feels like AWS is behind the EKS race, the only advantage I'm able to see right now is the support of IPv6, however, trying to promote AWS alternatives that are different from the market and more like a vendor locking solutions like ECS/Fargate have kept AWS behind and focusing on the wrong things. EKS needs to really improve its integration with the Kubernetes ecosystem and have an enterprise solution for monitoring, backups, and service mesh.
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    Apache
    Kubernetes is really great and their community is growing really fast (Google influence). We evaluated it in the beginning and it would fit for our web applications workload. We decided to proceed with Mesos because it has more potential. You may use a different framework for different kinds of tasks on Mesos. There is a Kubernetes framework for Mesos, by the way.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Good performance of platform without hiccups
    • Less number of people required to manage cluster
    • Easier to deploy new microservices
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    Apache
    • It's optimizing our resources.
    • It's improving our process. This argument is not just for Mesos, but we needed a tool like this to start changing and it works like a charm.
    • It's open source.
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