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Knaup: Apache Mesos automatically bin-packs applications to maximize cluster utilization

Tobi Knaup · Tobi Knaup, Mesosphere // Data Driven #29 // Sep 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Sep 22, 2014 · at 2:17

Tobi Knaup, co-founder and CTO of Mesosphere, describes how Apache Mesos automates cluster resource management during a talk at Data Driven NYC.

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“One thing that Mesos does is it, you know, it automatically bin packs your applications onto the infrastructure that you have, so you get the highest utilization out of it.”

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The claim, plainly

Apache Mesos automatically bin-packs applications onto available infrastructure to maximize resource utilization.

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Assessment

Core Apache Mesos does not automatically perform application bin-packing. According to the official Apache Mesos architecture whitepaper (Hindman et al., NSDI 2011) and source code, Mesos operates as a two-level scheduler using Dominant Resource Fairness (DRF) to distribute resource offers to framework schedulers. Task-level bin-packing algorithms are executed by external frameworks (such as Marathon or Fenzo) running on top of Mesos, rather than built into core Apache Mesos itself.

The Apache Mesos architecture whitepaper explicitly notes that Mesos delegates task scheduling decisions to upper-level frameworks rather than performing centralized bin packing.
Apache Mesos source code relies on HierarchicalDRFAllocatorProcess (Dominant Resource Fairness) for resource offers, which is a fair-sharing algorithm distinct from bin packing.

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[1] berkeley.edu [2] apache.org [3] arxiv.org [4] netflixtechblog.com [5] apache.org [6] berkeley.edu [7] wikipedia.org [8] stackoverflow.com

Apache Mesos bin packing algorithm task scheduling resource allocation Apache Mesos documentation bin packing resource allocation Apache Mesos whitepaper resource offer scheduling bin packing "bin packing" "Apache Mesos" source code allocator "Marathon" "bin packing" Mesos Apache Mesos Dominant Resource Fairness bin packing

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