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Apache Mesos Essentials

By : Dharmesh Kakadia
Book Image

Apache Mesos Essentials

By: Dharmesh Kakadia

Overview of this book

<p>Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. It allows developers to concurrently run the likes of Hadoop, Spark, Storm, and other applications on a dynamically shared pool of nodes. With Mesos, you have the power to manage a wide range of resources in a multi-tenant environment.</p> <p>Starting with the basics, this book will give you an insight into all the features that Mesos has to offer. You will first learn how to set up Mesos in various environments from data centers to the cloud. You will then learn how to implement self-managed Platform as a Service environment with Mesos using various service schedulers, such as Chronos, Aurora, and Marathon. You will then delve into the depths of Mesos fundamentals and learn how to build distributed applications using Mesos primitives.</p> <p>Finally, you will round things off by covering the operational aspects of Mesos including logging, monitoring, high availability, and recovery.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Apache Mesos Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Running Services on Mesos

In the previous chapters, we have seen how to run various data processing frameworks on Mesos, but services are another big part of the enterprise environment. Enterprises run a wide variety of services and they play a very important role in their success. In this chapter, we will introduce services and different scheduler frameworks for running services on Mesos:

  • Introduction to services

  • Marathon

  • Chronos

  • Aurora

  • Service discovery

  • Packaging chronos