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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

The Mesos API


Mesos provides an API to allow developers to build custom frameworks that can run on top of the underlying distributed infrastructure. Refer to the API details section in Chapter 1, Introducing Mesos for a detailed explanation of the Mesos API. The detailed steps involved in developing bespoke frameworks leveraging this API will be described in the subsequent section with the help of an example.

Mesos also implements an actor style message-passing programming model to enable nonblocking communication between different Mesos components and leverages protocol buffers for the same.

In addition, there is also a new scheduler HTTP API that was recently introduced, and it will be briefly discussed in the next section.

The scheduler HTTP API

Since Mesos version 0.24.0, experimental support has been introduced for a new HTTP API (only scheduler for the time being). The Mesos master hosts the api/v1/scheduler endpoint with which the scheduler communicates.

Request Calls

The master currently...