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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

Introduction to Mesos frameworks


A Mesos framework sits between Mesos and the application and acts as a layer for managing task scheduling and execution. As its implementation is application-specific, the term is often used to refer to the application itself. Earlier, a Mesos framework could interact with the Mesos API using only the libmesos C++ library, due to which other language bindings were developed for Java, Scala, Python, and Go among others, which leveraged libmesos heavily. Since v0.19.0, changes made to the HTTP-based protocol enabled developers to develop frameworks using the language they wanted without having to rely on the C++ code. A framework consists of two components:

  • A scheduler

  • An executor

The scheduler is responsible for taking decisions on the resource offers made to it and tracking the current state of the cluster. Communication with the Mesos master is handled by the SchedulerDriver module, which registers the framework with the master, launches tasks, and passes messages...