Mesos vs IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Valeri Karpov

Principal Engineer

Booster FuelsTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 51-200 employees

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Currently use for traffic management for IOT edge devices and their sensor data flows. IoT generates lots of data and this data needs to processed at the edge devices before sending the processed result to cloud. Hence there is always ingress and egress data traffic in and out of the IoT edge devices which needs traffic management

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Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Mesos

IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

Pros

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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Willian Molinari

Tech lead

LocawebInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Simple
Easy to setup
Quickly get the benefits

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Human Resources Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

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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Valeri Karpov

Principal Engineer

Booster FuelsTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 51-200 employees

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Still missing functionalities for a full usage as traffic director.

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Support Rating

Mesos 1.0

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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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Valeri Karpov

Principal Engineer

Booster FuelsTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 51-200 employees

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IBM Cloud Managed Istio 6.9

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IBM has good track record, but we haven't used their support after getting setup initially. However, the training made available by them during our introductory experience was good, and provided us with a lot of useful background knowledge along with guidance on how to address the specific use cases we were looking for.

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Implementation Rating

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We did not use IBM professional services to implement istio. Our experience was such that getting it setup quickly did not require assistance. We did however, make use of IBM's training opportunities at kube con 2019, which included a walkthrough setup of istio on IBM Cloud. This provided us with a strong base on which to build.

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Alternatives Considered

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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Willian Molinari

Tech lead

LocawebInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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It's a cost effective solution for my organization.

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Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Willian Molinari

Tech lead

LocawebInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Simplify management and cost of instrumenting our application.

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Entry-level set up fee?

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

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Rating Summary

Mesos

IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Mesos

IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Mesos vs IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Mesos

IBM Cloud Managed Istio

Feature Rating Comparison

Platform-as-a-Service

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

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Cons

Support Rating

Implementation Rating

Alternatives Considered

Return on Investment

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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