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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 as a cluster scheduler


One can consider Chronos as a time-based job scheduler, such as cron in the typical Unix environment. Chronos is distributed and fully fault-tolerant, and it runs on top of Apache Mesos.

Just like cron, Chronos executes the shell scripts (combined with Linux commands) by default and also supports Mesos executors.

Chronos can interact with systems such as Hadoop or Kafka even if the Mesos worker machine, on which the real execution happens, does not have the system installed. You can use Chronos to start a service or run a script on a remote machine in the background. The wrapper script can have an asynchronous callback to alert Chronos to the job status, such as whether it is completed or failed and so on. For the most part, people use Chronos to run dockerized applications. A detailed explanation of dockerized applications is provided in Chapter 7, Mesos Containerizers.

Chronos comes with a Web UI in which you can see the job status, statistics of the job's history...