# d2iq-archive/marathon

Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale.

Repository: https://github.com/d2iq-archive/marathon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/marathon
Homepage: https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon/
Language: Scala
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: dcos-orchestration-guild, dcos
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-09-08T05:13:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4817, "days_push": 1455, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4028, forks 830 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:32.707263+00:00)

## What it is
Marathon is a production-proven Apache Mesos framework for deploying and managing containers (including Docker) at scale, exposing a REST API for starting, stopping, and scaling applications. It supports high availability via leader election, health checks, constraints, and service discovery, and served as the init system for DC/OS.

## Use cases
- orchestrate docker containers on apache mesos
- deploy and scale long-running applications on a cluster
- run a highly available container scheduler with leader election
- schedule apps with placement constraints per rack or node
- launch other mesos frameworks like chronos or storm
- manage containerized services via a rest api

## When to choose
- you already operate an Apache Mesos or DC/OS cluster
- you need a battle-tested Mesos framework with HA and health checks
- you want to launch arbitrary shell workloads or other Mesos frameworks

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project - DC/OS support ended in 2021 and the repo is archived
- you want a modern orchestrator - use Kubernetes instead
- you need active community support or recent security patches

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: container-orchestration, deployment, api-framework, scheduling
- domain: microservices, cloud-computing
- platform: jvm, self-hosted
- tags: mesos, dcos, scala, container-scheduling, rest-api, high-availability, containers, devops, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- d2iq-archive/marathon (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:32.707263+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:52.153295+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/d2iq-archive/marathon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:32.707263+00:00, sha d3d435f230da)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.