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Mesosphere vs Nomad: What are the differences?
Developers describe Mesosphere as "Combine your datacenter servers and cloud instances into one shared pool". Mesosphere offers a layer of software that organizes your machines, VMs, and cloud instances and lets applications draw from a single pool of intelligently- and dynamically-allocated resources, increasing efficiency and reducing operational complexity. On the other hand, Nomad is detailed as "A cluster manager and scheduler". Nomad is a cluster manager, designed for both long lived services and short lived batch processing workloads. Developers use a declarative job specification to submit work, and Nomad ensures constraints are satisfied and resource utilization is optimized by efficient task packing. Nomad supports all major operating systems and virtualized, containerized, or standalone applications.
Mesosphere and Nomad can be categorized as "Cluster Management" tools.
Nomad is an open source tool with 4.93K GitHub stars and 893 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nomad's open source repository on GitHub.
CircleCI, LendUp, and Wealthsimple are some of the popular companies that use Nomad, whereas Mesosphere is used by Keen, GoGuardian, and Qordoba. Nomad has a broader approval, being mentioned in 21 company stacks & 3 developers stacks; compared to Mesosphere, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.
Pros of Mesosphere
- Devops6
Pros of Nomad
- Built in Consul integration7
- Easy setup6
- Bult-in Vault integration4
- Built-in federation support3
- Self-healing2
- Autoscaling support2
- Bult-in Vault inegration1
- Stable1
- Simple1
- Nice ACL1
- Managable by terraform1
- Open source1
- Multiple workload support1
- Flexible1
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Cons of Mesosphere
Cons of Nomad
- Easy to start with3
- HCL language for configuration, an unpopular DSL1
- Small comunity1