The New Stack Podcast

Mesosphere's Founders On The Modern Role Of The Scheduler

Episode Summary

When the Open Container Initiative was first formed over two years ago now, the event appeared at the time to lend a much-needed sense of importance to the matter of how a software container should be formed and formatted.  Then last year, Mesosphere began work on what it was describing as a Universal Container Runtime (UCR) — a way to leverage Mesos’ format-agnostic methodology for scheduling workloads, to schedule any workload in any respectable format but recognize it as though it were a container. Last month at MesosCon in Los Angeles, Mesosphere formally announced the stable version of the project. And in a wide-ranging discussion, company co-founder and CTO Tobias Knaup offered some further insight on the concept, defining UCR as a runtime inside Mesos enabling it to abstract away the details of a workload from whatever container management system may be addressing that workload. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/h-fga2dE4Og

Episode Notes

When the Open Container Initiative was first formed over two years ago now, the event appeared at the time to lend a much-needed sense of importance to the matter of how a software container should be formed and formatted.  Then last year, Mesosphere began work on what it was describing as a Universal Container Runtime (UCR) — a way to leverage Mesos’ format-agnostic methodology for scheduling workloads, to schedule any workload in any respectable format but recognize it as though it were a container.

Last month at MesosCon in Los Angeles, Mesosphere formally announced the stable version of the project. And in a wide-ranging discussion, company co-founder and CTO Tobias Knaup offered some further insight on the concept, defining UCR as a runtime inside Mesos enabling it to abstract away the details of a workload from whatever container management system may be addressing that workload.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/h-fga2dE4Og