I want to pay for support!

As mentioned in the main article, Mesosphere ( http://mesosphere.com), one of the authors of Mesos, provide commercial support for DC/ OS with their Mesosphere Enterprise DC/OS product. But what are the differences between that and its open source sibling? As might be expected, support options play a big part here.

Contracts are available for 24x7 and 9-5 offerings, with prices based on the number of nodes (physical or virtual) that exist within the environment. It looks as though the enterprise version also adds a bit of extra polish that goes down particularly well in the corporate environment; LDAP/Active Directory integration (for identity management), secrets management (for secure storage of credentials and keys) and role based access to containers, jobs and services are all sure fire ticks in the box for the average corporate purchaser of software.

As well as this, the company bundles in some ‘enterprise monitoring and troubleshooting tools’ although there isn’t a huge amount of detail of how this differs from the open source equivalent. I did find some mention of enhanced logging which would please a corporate security team. There’s also a brief mention of multitenancy which is often a must-have for service providers. This is where clients, for example, might share infrastructure they rent but thanks to access control, they are unable to see each others applications or data. For anyone running say, some kind of data analysis as a service for financial clients this is worth paying for by itself.