Why is DCOS required if we can deploy Mesos Cluster directly

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I have an query, If we can use Mesos Cluster by directly installing master and slave nodes. Then why do we need DCOS , is it that DCOS provides additional support along with mesos cluster. Please elaborate on this part.

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Depends on your needs :-): Here what in my opinion the Community Edition (the Enterprise Edition includes more proprietary features such as security) of DCOS adds to self setup of Mesos:

  • Easy setup, including Marathon and MesosDNS.
  • Command Line Interface with one Click install from the Universe. I personally especially like the simple installs of these services as it is really simple to install for example HDFS or cassandra in your cluster. Note: As with the above you can probably with some effort configure such setup yourself as both projects are on Github.
  • Very nice UI

So overall I would summarize DCOS provides a very easy and tested best-practice setup of Mesos and its ecosystem.

Hope this helps!