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Mastering Mesos

By : Dipa Dubhashi, Akhil Das
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Mastering Mesos

By: Dipa Dubhashi, Akhil Das

Overview of this book

Apache Mesos is open source cluster management software that provides efficient resource isolations and resource sharing distributed applications or frameworks. This book will take you on a journey to enhance your knowledge from amateur to master level, showing you how to improve the efficiency, management, and development of Mesos clusters. The architecture is quite complex and this book will explore the difficulties and complexities of working with Mesos. We begin by introducing Mesos, explaining its architecture and functionality. Next, we provide a comprehensive overview of Mesos features and advanced topics such as high availability, fault tolerance, scaling, and efficiency. Furthermore, you will learn to set up multi-node Mesos clusters on private and public clouds. We will also introduce several Mesos-based scheduling and management frameworks or applications to enable the easy deployment, discovery, load balancing, and failure handling of long-running services. Next, you will find out how a Mesos cluster can be easily set up and monitored using the standard deployment and configuration management tools. This advanced guide will show you how to deploy important big data processing frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, and Storm on Mesos and big data storage frameworks such as Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Kafka.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Mesos
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chronos plus Marathon


The combination of Chronos and Marathon can be utilized as building blocks to create production-ready distributed applications. You already know that Chronos can be used to fire up tasks at scheduled intervals; cron and Marathon let your jobs run continuously, such as init or upstart, in typical Linux environments. As mentioned before, both the schedulers come with a REST endpoint that allows the user to manage the jobs. You can use this endpoint to start, manage, and terminate the running jobs. We will now take a look at how this is achieved.

The Chronos REST API endpoint

As mentioned before, you can communicate with Chronos using the REST JSON API over HTTP. By default, those nodes that have Chronos up and running listen at the 8080 port for API requests. This section covers how to perform the following tasks using the REST endpoint:

  1. Listing the running jobs

  2. Manually starting a job

  3. Adding a scheduled job

  4. Deleting a job

For more information, visit http://mesos.github.io/chronos...