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SGer
SGer

Reputation: 552

Scheduling Docker containers to Cluster: Swarm or CoreOS?

I would like to schedule Docker containers to a small cluster. The jobs that will be running will mostly be one-time-jobs like Rapidminer computations, not any lasting services.

I have tried to read a lot about the available systems and I believe that Kubernetes is not really needed, because of the absence of lasting jobs like web servers, which need to keep running and restarted asap if they fail.

However, I am not sure if my initial idea of using Swarm on simple Ubuntu LTS hosts shouldn't be replaced with using CoreOS. Especially because CoreOS seems to have its own scheduling solution, although it does look more complicated.

Does CoreOS provide benefits that would make it worth using over Ubuntu+Swarm for the given use case?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 762

Answers (2)

Pensu
Pensu

Reputation: 3619

If you are looking for better scheduling solutions, you should go with CoreOS (If they are only two choices, otherwise go with Mesos!). If you have your own scheduling algorithm and ready to integrate it with swarm from scratch, then it could be a good experience to choose swarm, as the scheduler there is very basic.

Upvotes: 2

seanmcl
seanmcl

Reputation: 9946

We use Mesos. It's very easy to set up, e.g. there are rpms for mesos masters and slaves. There is native support for docker containerization and a clean rest interface.

Upvotes: 1

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