Intro to Apache Yunikorn

YuniKorn [‘ju:nikɔ:n] is a made-up word, “Y” for YARN, “K” for K8s, “Uni” for Unified, and its pronunciation is the same as “Unicorn”.

YuniKorn is a light-weight, universal resource scheduler for container orchestrator systems. It is created to achieve fine-grained resource sharing for various workloads efficiently on large scale, multi-tenant environments on one hand and dynamically brought up cloud-native environment on the other. YuniKorn brings a unified, cross-platform scheduling experience for mixed workloads consists of stateless batch workloads and stateful services, with support for, but not limited to, YARN and Kubernetes.

https://yunikorn.apache.org/