Apache Mesos

aid: apache-mesos
name: Apache Mesos
description: Apache Mesos is a retired cluster manager (now in the Apache Attic) that provided efficient resource isolation
  and sharing across distributed applications or frameworks. It abstracted CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources
  from machines, enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems. Mesos exposed comprehensive HTTP APIs for schedulers,
  operators, executors, and agents.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/apache-mesos.png
tags:
- Cluster Management
- Distributed Systems
- Resource Management
- Scheduling
- Retired
created: '2026-03-16'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apache-mesos/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: apache-mesos:mesos-scheduler-http-api
  name: Apache Mesos Scheduler HTTP API
  description: The Mesos Scheduler HTTP API at /api/v1/scheduler enables framework schedulers to subscribe to resource offers,
    launch tasks, kill tasks, reconcile status, and manage framework lifecycle over a persistent HTTP connection with RecordIO-encoded
    streaming responses.
  humanURL: https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/scheduler-http-api/
  tags:
  - Framework
  - HTTP API
  - Scheduling
  - Tasks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/scheduler-http-api/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/apache/mesos
- aid: apache-mesos:apache-mesos-apache-mesos-operator-http-api-api
  name: Apache Mesos Apache Mesos Operator HTTP API API
  description: The Apache Mesos Operator HTTP API API from Apache Mesos — 1 operation(s) for apache mesos operator http api.
  humanURL: https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/operator-http-api/
  tags:
  - Apache Mesos Operator HTTP API
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apache-mesos-apache-mesos-operator-http-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/operator-http-api/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/apache/mesos
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/apache-mesos-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/apache-mesos-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/apache-mesos-domain-security.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://mesos.apache.org/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/apache
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/apache/mesos
- type: Documentation
  url: https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/
- type: Blog
  url: https://mesos.apache.org/blog/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Resource Abstraction
    description: Abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources from physical machines across the entire cluster.
  - name: Two-Level Scheduling
    description: Framework schedulers receive resource offers from Mesos and decide how to use them, enabling coexistence
      of diverse workloads.
  - name: Linear Scalability
    description: Proven to scale to tens of thousands of nodes with fault-tolerant replicated master using ZooKeeper.
  - name: Container Support
    description: Native Docker and AppC container image support for running containerized workloads.
  - name: HTTP API
    description: Comprehensive HTTP API supporting JSON and Protobuf encoding for schedulers, operators, executors, and agents.
  - name: High Availability
    description: Fault-tolerant master failover via ZooKeeper with automatic leader election and state recovery.
  - name: Resource Reservations
    description: Static and dynamic resource reservations for frameworks and roles with quota management.
  - name: Maintenance Scheduling
    description: Built-in maintenance window scheduling for graceful draining and reactivation of agent nodes.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Distributed Systems Orchestration
    description: Run multiple distributed frameworks including Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka on shared cluster resources.
  - name: Container Orchestration
    description: Schedule and manage containerized workloads across a datacenter with resource isolation.
  - name: Big Data Processing
    description: Run Apache Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, and other big data frameworks on Mesos-managed resources.
  - name: Microservices Platform
    description: Host microservices workloads with Marathon framework providing long-running service scheduling on Mesos.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Apache Hadoop
    description: Run Hadoop MapReduce jobs on Mesos-managed cluster resources.
  - name: Apache Spark
    description: Apache Spark supports Mesos as a cluster manager for distributed job execution.
  - name: Apache Kafka
    description: Kafka brokers can be scheduled and managed on Mesos clusters.
  - name: Apache ZooKeeper
    description: ZooKeeper provides leader election and state storage for Mesos master high availability.
  - name: Docker
    description: Native Docker container image and runtime support for containerized workload execution.
  - name: Elasticsearch
    description: Elasticsearch can be deployed and managed as a framework on Mesos clusters.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
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