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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

Load balancing with HAProxy


The HAProxy-Marathon-bridge script is shipped with the Marathon installation. You can also use Marathon-lb for the same. Both of these create a configuration file for HAProxy and a lightweight TCP/HTTP proxy by looking up the running tasks from Marathon's REST API.

HAProxy-Marathon-bridge is a simple script providing a minimum set of functionalities and is easier to understand for novice users. The latter one, Marathon-lb, supports advanced features such as SSL offloading, load balancing based on the VHost, and sticky connections.

Creating the bridge between HAProxy and Marathon

First, you need to create an HAProxy configuration from the running Marathon instance, which, by default, runs on port 8080 of the machine. You can use the HAProxy-Marathon-bridge script for this through the following syntax:

$ ./bin/haproxy-Marathon-bridge localhost:8080 > /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

Note that here we specified localhost:8080 because we ran the Marathon instance and HAProxy...