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Learn Apache Mesos

By : Manuj Aggarwal
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Learn Apache Mesos

By: Manuj Aggarwal

Overview of this book

Apache Mesos is an open source cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications or frameworks. This book will help you build a strong foundation of Mesos' capabilities along with practical examples to support the concepts explained throughout the book. Learn Apache Mesos dives straight into how Mesos works. You will be introduced to the distributed system and its challenges and then learn how you can use Mesos and its framework to solve data problems. You will also gain a full understanding of Mesos' internal mechanisms and get equipped to use Mesos and develop applications. Furthermore, this book lets you explore all the steps required to create highly available clusters and build your own Mesos frameworks. You will also cover application deployment and monitoring. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to use Mesos to make full use of machines and how to simplify data center maintenance.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Installing ZooKeeper

ZooKeeper provides centralized services for distributed systems. It maintains a central repository for its configuration files. The clients and the servers on the distributed system can access these files and run their processes smoothly.

Let's see how we can install ZooKeeper in our Mesos framework:

  1. Run this command to install ZooKeeper:
sudo yum install mesosphere-zookeeper
  1. You will see that the ZooKeeper package is found. We will be installing the ZooKeeper version 3.4.6. Enter Y for yes.

This will automatically install all the dependencies that ZooKeeper requires to run. Simple, isn't it?

  1. After all the packages are downloaded, you should see the following:

  1. Let's now check the ZooKeeper services with the following command:
service zookeeper status

You will again see the status as inactive, but this is nothing to worry about—...