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Comment by jacques_chester | Hacker News Reader

Have a look at Lattice (http://lattice.cf), which is extracted from Cloud Foundry.

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal (in Labs), which donates the largest chunk of engineering effort to Cloud Foundry, including the Lattice team.

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Looks like a very interesting project which I'll keep a keen eye on. We're probably not ready to switch our entire stack from Mesos to Lattice though, especially considering you're missing some important bits such as external service discovery etc. (by the looks of it) We're currently doing Marathon on Mesos with gliderlabs/registrator which syncs Docker and Consul - and then we're using consul-template + HAProxy for exposing applications externally. Works quite nice.

The differences (and advantages) between Lattice and Mesos could've been made clearer too I guess, although your docs and FAQs are quite nice.

If you want the full stack, you go from Lattice to Cloud Foundry. It gives you service injection, logging, routing and a bunch of other stuff I forget right now.

And it doesn't require you to build your own snowflake PaaS, which you'll be married to forever at your own expense.

I've worked on CF so I'm biased in its favour. But my actual paying job is helping clients to deliver user value. Tinkering around with various tools is fun, but it's not delivering user value.

Typing

    cf push app-name

Is.

And it works. It just plain old works. That makes my life 100x easier.

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