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.
Read full review We do have a couple of users who are new to Docker and the Linus shell environment. Portainer makes it easy for them to quickly deploy stacks of containers with its web editor to configure docker-compose files with an easy-to-use GUI. Not only does this save time, but it also encourages new users to interact more positively with Docker and Portainer in general.
Read full review 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. Read full review Separating server maintenance with application development, providing a clear user interface for developers who don't want to worry about the underlying server. RBAC for container deployment linked to a SAML IDP, not something particularly easy in a native Docker instance but point and shoot in Portainer, allowing the use of Azure / Okta etc to provide user access. Image management with multiple repositories is super clear and reduces incidents Read full review 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. Read full review When setting up static IPs for a new container, having the used ones for a specific network at hand would be cool or something like a mini IPAM of some sort... Using the developertools to see "oh, it's a 40x or 500" when something doesn't seem to load because the ui just states "Didn't work" is kinda annoying. expandable toasts or something would be nice. Read full review Likelihood to Renew It is an excellent tool.
Read full review Usability It is a clear UI, and it does what it sets out to do, very well
Read full review Support Rating No real support channel, the Mesos
GitHub issues list was the only one we found and it wasn't particularly helpful.
Read full review One of their staff members jumped on a video call immediately with me and led me through the problem and solution during a quick session of screen sharing. In this day and age that is above and beyond, especially when it comes to software. It took approximately 5-10 minutes to diagnose and fix, including pleasantries!
Read full review Implementation Rating It is really easy. Just follow the documentation.
Read full review 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.
Read full review I am using Rancher in Kubernetes environments. It was really the first product I used with it and never really had time to test out how well Portainer behaves on Kubernetes. For the exact same thing - Docker Swarm management I used Swarmpit some time ago, but I like Portainer better, even though Swarmpit has better cluster visualization then Portainer. Portainer 5 node business edition is really a big plus for me, since it has some really nice features.
Read full review 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. Read full review Increased productivity: Portainer's user-friendly interface and streamlined container management can help increase the productivity of IT teams. Cost savings: By simplifying container management, Portainer can help reduce the time and resources required to manage container environments, potentially leading to cost savings. Read full review ScreenShots