Comparison

Notes

• Work is happening very rapidly in this space. Tools are borrowing concepts from one another to make them easy for their users.
• You would need to understand your requirement and then choose the best fit.
• BORG and Omega are the geneis for most of the container orchestrator tools.

Docker Swarm Mode

Advantage

• Easy to use
• Docker Inc's Official solution
  • part of docker binary
• Secure by default

Features which are coming

• Distributed Application Bundle
• Secrets
• Logging
• Scheduler updates
• Rollback feature
• Cluster Federation
• Autoscale

Not so Pro

• No concepts of Pods

Kubernetes

• Most popular container orchestrator as as now.
• Rich and advance constructs
• Multitenacy
• Federation
• updates and maintenance

Features which are coming

• kubelet TLS bootstrap
• tool to bootstrap kubernetes (kubeadm)
• Service LB
• and many more

Not so Pro

• Setup is hard as compared to Docker Swarm. Work is progress to make easier.

Mesos (Marathon)

• Most mature and predates Docker
• Scales to thousands of nodes
• It can run mix workload containers, Hadoop, spark etc
• Nice GUI
• Used by large companies
  • Twitter, AirBnb

Not so Pro

A bit difficult to setup