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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

Deploying and configuring a Mesos cluster using Terraform


Terraform is an infrastructure building, changing, and versioning tool to handle the existing popular services as well as custom in-house solutions safely and efficiently that is owned by HashiCorp and written in Go language. In this module, we will first discuss how we can install Terraform, and then, we will consider how we can use Terraform to spin up a Mesos cluster.

Installing Terraform

Head to https://www.terraform.io/downloads.html, download the appropriate version for your platform, and unzip it, as follows:

$ wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.6.9/terraform_0.6.9_linux_amd64.zip

$ unzip terraform_0.6.9_linux_amd64.zip

You will note that the terraform archive is a bunch of binaries once you unzip them, which looks similar to the following:

Now, add the path to the directory in the PATH variable so that you can access the terraform command from any directory.

If everything goes well, then you can see the usage of terraform...