MesosCon NA 2016

Mesos currently supports two types of container runtimes: one is Mesos’ own pluggable runtime which uses OS primitives directly (a.k.a. the Mesos containerizer); the other is to delegate the entire container management to Docker engine (a.k.a. the Docker containerizer). Recently, we added container image support to Mesos containerizer, which allows it to launch off-the-shelf Docker or Appc containers without depending on Docker daemon or rkt. In this talk, we are going to discuss the motivation of why we want to unify the containerizers in Mesos and how this benefits the Mesos maintainers and our users. We will then talk about the current status of this work, and show what can be built on top of this pluggable architecture. Finally, we will share our vision on the near future for the Mesos containerizer and how it’s going to enable more innovation in the Mesos ecosystem.