broke this story earlier this morning<\/a>, argues that this means that Mesosphere is \u201cbowing\u201d to Kubernetes. That\u2019s something Mesosphere co-founder and CEO Florian Leibert and Mesosphere CMO Peter Guagenti strongly denied when I talked to them earlier today. They both stressed that the idea here is to give Mesosphere\u2019s users \u2014 which tend to be large enterprises \u2014 more choice. \u201cOur customers tend to be infrastructure and operations professionals at large companies who are serving hundreds or thousands of developers in an organization,\u201d Guagenti said. \u201cFor them, the most important thing they provide is freedom of choice.\u201d<\/p>\nIn Leibert\u2019s view, offering support for Kubernetes as an orchestration engine is no different from offering support for multiple data services, continuous integration platforms and networking tools. Guagenti also later stressed that it\u2019s important to remember that for Mesosphere\u2019s customers, the platform isn\u2019t about containers \u2014 it\u2019s about deploying and managing data-intensive applications.<\/p>\n
Leibert also noted that Marathon and Kubernetes have different use cases because Marathon can also be used to run legacy applications without container technology, while Kubernetes is obviously solely focused on containers. \u201cSo it\u2019s natural for us to support both,\u201d Leibert said. \u201cA lot of these technologies are really like a layer cake. Kubernetes and Mesos can work really well together. Kubernetes takes over the container workflow but it can\u2019t handle workflows that typically don\u2019t run on containers like Hadoop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guagenti also noted that he believes that Mesosphere is currently a leader in the container space, both in terms of the number of containers its users run in production and in terms of revenue (though the company sadly didn\u2019t share any numbers).<\/p>\n
Leibert and Guagenti both stressed that Mesosphere will continue to invest in Marathon, just like it always has.<\/p>\n
Going forward, developers will be able to use DC\/OS to set up and manage their Kubernetes-based container deployments (including different versions of Kubernetes) right from DC\/OS and on the same infrastructure that runs the rest of their container deployments. Mesosphere worked with Google on this project and Mesosphere will offer its users a pure up-stream version of Kubernetes without any vendor-specific changes to ensure there are no compatibility issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn bringing Kubernetes to DC\/OS, Mesosphere provides customers with a robust platform for building, deploying, and operating data-rich, containerized applications in your data center and on public clouds,\u201d said Allan Naim, a Google product manager in charge of Kubernetes and the Google Container Engine. \u201cWith projects like Kubernetes for containers and TensorFlow for machine intelligence running on both our platforms, Mesosphere DC\/OS and Google Cloud Platform together offer a compelling open hybrid cloud platform. We\u2019re excited to continue to work with Mesosphere and the community going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, Mesosphere argues that it\u2019s simply giving its customers more choice, though it\u2019s also clear that this is yet another win for the Kubernetes ecosystem, which really isn\u2019t so much of a threat to Mesosphere, which has long found its own niche, but more for Docker, which runs the risk of falling behind, even as it kickstarted the container movement. Indeed, I can\u2019t help but think that this move by Mesosphere is actually going to make it harder for Docker to find its own niche going forward.<\/p>\n
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