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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

A comparative analysis of different Scheduling/Management frameworks


This section will give you a brief comparison and use cases for the different scheduling frameworks that we discussed in this chapter.

Marathon is a PaaS built on Mesos to make sure the job will run forever even if few machines in the cluster go down. It can seamlessly handle the hardware and software failures and ensure the application is always running. These types of frameworks are useful in production environments where your application should always be running and available all the time—for example, a web server hosting a website. In such cases, you can deploy it as a Marathon application that will take care of all these aspects.

Chronos can be considered as a distributed fault-tolerant replacement of the typical Linux cron jobs that are used to fire up scheduled jobs, take periodic backups, check the health of the system, and so on. Both Chronos and Marathon come with a Web UI and a REST endpoint for the management...