Sam could give a longer answer. In short it’s another resource scheduler, closer to mesos in granularity than kubernetes. Interesting architecture topology option for openwhisk with such schedulers is the lean stack. Might even play nice with knative.
-r > On Feb 16, 2019, at 6:10 PM, Carlos Santana <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ah ok > > Do you have a synopsis on how it compares to the options we use today like > using docker or k8s pods? > > > - Carlos Santana > @csantanapr > >> On Feb 16, 2019, at 5:56 PM, Rodric Rabbah <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html >> >>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 5:56 PM Carlos Santana <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> What is yarn? >>> The nodejs package manager? https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/ >>> >>> >>> - Carlos Santana >>> @csantanapr >>> >>>> On Feb 16, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Rodric Rabbah <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I want to thank Sam Hjelmfelt for walking me through his PR >>>> https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/4129 to allow >>> actions to >>>> run on YARN. He also showed me a live demo -- really neat. >>>> >>>> I'm making a final pass through the PR and will merge it in 72 hours if >>>> there's no additional input by silent assent. >>>> >>>> -r >>>
