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Mastering Mesos

By : Dipa Dubhashi, Akhil Das
Book Image

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

Service discovery using Consul


Mesos-consul is used to register and deregister services that run as Mesos tasks.

For example, if you have a Mesos task called myapp, then this program will register the application in Consul, which will expose DNS as myapp.service.consul. Consul also does the Mesos leader discovery through the leader.Mesos.service.consul DNS, which points to the active leader.

How is this different from other service discovery software?

Mesos-dns is a project similar to Consul. In Mesos-dns, it polls Mesos to get information about the tasks, whereas with Consul, instead of exposing this information via a built-in DNS server, it populates the Consul Service discovery with this information. The services are then exposed by Consul through DNS and its REST endpoint.

Running Consul

You will have to change the values of the environment if your ZooKeeper and Marathon services are not registered in Consul. You can dockerize Consul, and it can be run via Marathon as well.

Consul can be run...