Developer(s) Mesosphere Operating system | Development status Active | |
Stable release 1.8.7 / November 14, 2016 (2016-11-14) Written in C++, JavaScript, Python Type Cluster management software | ||
The Datacenter Operating System (known also as DC/OS) is an open source operating system and distributed system built upon the Apache Mesos project. The Datacenter Operating System was developed by Mesosphere and announced in April 2016.
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Origins
The term datacenter operating system was promoted in the paper The Datacenter Needs an Operating System, published at the University of California, Berkeley. In the paper Zaharia et al describe four areas of functionality that a datacenter OS should provide:
- Resource Sharing
- Data Sharing
- Programming Abstractions
- Debugging and Monitoring
The paper promoted the Mesos project for resource sharing amongst frameworks on a shared compute cluster.
Architecture
The Datacenter Operating System categorizes components as being in user space or kernel space. Kernel space includes the Mesos master and agents while user space includes various system components of the Datacenter Operating System. These components include (amongst others):
History
On April 19, 2016, Mesosphere open sourced the Datacenter Operating System. At the launch, Autodesk announced that they were able to reduce running AWS instances by 66% using DC/OS.