In a move to cement a position of prominence in the data center workload orchestration market, Mesosphere officially unveiled version 1.0 of its Marathon orchestration platform.
With the 1.0 release, Marathon will now support stateful services, enabling the persistent volumes feature introduced in Apache Mesos last July, and putting the system in head-to-head contention against up-and-coming Rancher.
“Not only can you deploy 12-factor stateless apps, but you can also deploy apps that carry state, like a MySQL or Postgres database,†said Mesosphere Senior Vice President Matt Trifiro, in an interview with The New Stack.
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