DC/OS (A Mesos distribution) can be used on your laptop with dcos-vagrant or dcos-docker: - https://github.com/dcos/dcos-vagrant https://github.com/dcos/dcos-v

DC/OS (A Mesos distribution) can be used on your laptop with dcos-vagrant or dcos-docker: - https://github.com/dcos/dcos-vagrant https://github.com/dcos/dcos-vagrant - https://github.com/dcos/dcos-docker https://github.com/dcos/dcos-docker However, your point is somewhat valid in that Mesos requires you to allocate resources to everything you run, while resource allocation/enforcement is optional in Kubernetes. So you can easily run too many things and freeze your computer with Kubernetes, while Mesos is more conservative.