Cloud Native Infrastructure Management Solutions Compared
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This document compares several cloud native infrastructure management solutions: Cloud Foundry, OpenStack, Docker, Mesos, and Kubernetes. It outlines the key details of each solution such as backing organization, year started, type of solution, and lock-in. It also summarizes the main strengths and weaknesses of each solution and ultimately recommends that Kubernetes shows the most promise for modern application development at enterprise scale.
Cloud Native Infrastructure Management Solutions Compared
- 1. CLOUD NATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS COMPARED SOLUTION NAME CLOUD FOUNDRY OPENSTACK DOCKER MESOS KUBERNETES BACKED BY Pivotal Software OpenStack Foundation Docker Mesosphere, Microsoft Linux Foundation, Google YEAR 2011 2010 2013 2009 2014 TYPE PaaS IaaS Simple Orchestration Container Orchestration Container Orchestration LOCK-IN? Yes No Yes Yes No STRENGTHS • Full featured platform • Mature authentication, user grouping, multi-tenancy support • Great logging and metrics • Plenty of support options • Latest release, Kilo, is ready for production • Multiple cloud choices for deployment • Simple and easy orchestration • Built right into docker’s container platform • Mature with several large implementations • Scales to 10,000’s of servers • Great frameworks for big data • Large, vibrant community • Based on Google’s experience running containers • Plenty of support options WEAKNESSES • Is now a vertically integrated monolith • Mainly driven by Pivotal and IBM • CF’s deployment engine, BOSH, has a steep learning curve • Fell victim to featuritis • Difficult to install • Known issues at scale • Requires expensive vendor- proprietary networking & management software • Docker Swarm is not as robust in scheduling as Kubernetes or Mesos • Configuring storage is difficult • Not yet stable for production • Roots are in scientific computing • Expertise req’d for installation & ops • Issues with networking, service discovery • Potential featuritis risk • Needs better documentation, UIs for new users • CNCF has been criticized for moving too slowly BOTTOM LINE • PaaS vendors like CloudFoundry should rebase to Kubernetes (as many others have done so) in order to remain viable to enterprises for modern application deployment. • OpenStack simplifies datacenter heterogeneity and should be paired with Kubernetes or Mesos for easy installation and container support • Docker’s latest orchestration features aim to provide “just enough” scheduling capabilities and do not address enterprise needs for scale. • Mesos’ roots are in scientific computing, and it has a great ecosystem around big data. However, it is less focused around modern application development compared to Kubernetes. • Kubernetes is young but rapidly evolving due to its community. It shows the most promise for modern application development at enterprise scale. WWW.WORK-BENCH.COM CREATED BY @V1P1N