This chapter will give you a brief overview of Apache Mesos and cluster computing frameworks. We will walk you through the steps for setting up Mesos on a single-node and multi-node setup. We will also see how to set up a Mesos cluster using Vagrant and on Amazon EC2. Throughout this book, we will refer to Apache Mesos and Mesos interchangeably. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
Modern data centers
Cluster computing frameworks
Introducing Mesos
Why Mesos?
A single-node Mesos cluster
A multi-node Mesos cluster
A Mesos cluster on Amazon EC2
Running Mesos using Vagrant
The Mesos community