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Does anybody have experience with Cisco Mantl (Mantl.io) ? It looks like CloudFoundry or Flynn, but I never saw it mentioned on HN.

by weitzj 10y ago

mongrelion 10y ago
I worked on Mantl for a while last year. To understand the difference you can see Mantl just as an opinionated coalition of tools for running microservices. So, Mantl is not a thing but a collection of things (Mesos, Marathon, Consul, ELK stack, etc) put together using Ansible playbooks. Flynn is an actual product which, from what I can see, is also a collection of tools but these are written by the Flynn team themselves. I'm happy to answer any other question you might have about it.
- smartbit 10y ago
  Thank, makes sense. Feels like Mantl can go with the flow, add products when they become trendy. And from the perspective of the developer, does Mantl offer a similar PaaS experience as Heroku or Flynn?
sargun 10y ago
If you're interested in Mantl, I'd look at Mesosphere's DC/OS. It's very similar. Disclaimer: Work for Mesosphere
- smartbit 10y ago
  Does DC/OS out-of-the-box support 'git push' for deployment? See https://flynn.io/docs/basics#deploy https://flynn.io/docs/basics#deploy
stonith 10y ago
I worked on it for a few weeks while contracting at Cisco. At the time it was a set of tools for deploying a Mesos + Marathon cluster, and K8s was being looked at as a sub-in replacement for Marathon. I think that's now been done + much more. There wasn't any particular magic in it, more that it was a neat package of terraform+ansible tooling for getting mesos and the surrounding ecosystem going. This was about a year ago, so things may have changed since then. I do like the idea of not inventing your own paas, but rather having a consistent framework for deploying whatever kind of paas you need on whatever cloud is available.
- smartbit 10y ago
  > having a consistent framework for deploying whatever kind of PaaS you need on whatever cloud is available Indeed that is a great plus, no need to understand all the intricacies of each Cloud platform. What's your thought comparing it to Heroku or Flynn from the perspective of the (user-)developer? It seems getting little traction on fora like HN or Cloud conferences. Why would that be?

Does anybody have experience with Cisco Mantl (Mantl.io) ? It looks like CloudFoundry or Flynn, but I never saw it mentioned on HN.

by weitzj 10y ago

Does anybody have experience with Cisco Mantl (Mantl.io) ? It looks like CloudFoundry or Flynn, but I never saw it mentioned on HN.

mongrelion 10y ago

I worked on Mantl for a while last year. To understand the difference you can see Mantl just as an opinionated coalition of tools for running microservices. So, Mantl is not a thing but a collection of things (Mesos, Marathon, Consul, ELK stack, etc) put together using Ansible playbooks. Flynn is an actual product which, from what I can see, is also a collection of tools but these are written by the Flynn team themselves. I'm happy to answer any other question you might have about it.

smartbit 10y ago
Thank, makes sense. Feels like Mantl can go with the flow, add products when they become trendy. And from the perspective of the developer, does Mantl offer a similar PaaS experience as Heroku or Flynn?

sargun 10y ago

If you're interested in Mantl, I'd look at Mesosphere's DC/OS. It's very similar. Disclaimer: Work for Mesosphere

smartbit 10y ago
Does DC/OS out-of-the-box support 'git push' for deployment? See https://flynn.io/docs/basics#deploy https://flynn.io/docs/basics#deploy

stonith 10y ago

I worked on it for a few weeks while contracting at Cisco. At the time it was a set of tools for deploying a Mesos + Marathon cluster, and K8s was being looked at as a sub-in replacement for Marathon. I think that's now been done + much more. There wasn't any particular magic in it, more that it was a neat package of terraform+ansible tooling for getting mesos and the surrounding ecosystem going. This was about a year ago, so things may have changed since then. I do like the idea of not inventing your own paas, but rather having a consistent framework for deploying whatever kind of paas you need on whatever cloud is available.

smartbit 10y ago
> having a consistent framework for deploying whatever kind of PaaS you need on whatever cloud is available Indeed that is a great plus, no need to understand all the intricacies of each Cloud platform. What's your thought comparing it to Heroku or Flynn from the perspective of the (user-)developer? It seems getting little traction on fora like HN or Cloud conferences. Why would that be?