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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

Introduction to Singularity


Singularity was originally designed at HubSpot and later open sourced under the Apache license. Singularity acts as an API and web application that can be used to launch and schedule long-running Mesos processes, scheduled jobs, and tasks. One can consider Singularity and the components that come with it as a PaaS (Platform as a Service) to the end users. A novice user can use Singularity to deploy tasks on Mesos without having to understand Mesos in detail.

Singularity takes advantages of Apache Mesos features such as fault tolerance, scalability, and resource allocation, and runs as a task scheduler for Mesos frameworks.

Installing Singularity

Before installing Singularity, make sure you have Docker installed on your machine. If you haven't installed it yet, you can do so by following the steps mentioned in the official website at https://docs.docker.com.

The first step is to clone the Singularity repository, which can be done as follows:

$ git clone https://github...