Florian “Flo” Leibert, the founder and CEO of Mesosphere in San Francisco, California, develops applications and solutions that increase the accessibility of world-changing technologies. In addition to Mesosphere applications, Florian Leibert assisted in creating a container orchestration platform for the open-source Apache Mesos called Marathon.
Written using Scala, the software possesses the ability to run in highly-available mode through the use of multiple copies. It can deliver a REST API for the start, stop, and scale of applications and can evaluate the health of an application using HTTP or TCP checks. Furthermore, Marathon acts as a meta framework, allowing users to start other Mesos frameworks to ensure their survival in the event of a machine failure.
Marathon is most compatible with open source datacenter operating systems (DC/OS) and gains a number of additional features when running through this system. When run on DC/OS, users can allocate a virtual IP routing address to the software and enable it to become reachable anywhere in the cluster. True multitenancy also becomes possible when run on the Enterprise Edition of DC/OS.
