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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

Mesos containerizer


This is the default containerizer type provided by Mesos. In this type, tasks can be run through an array of pluggable isolators provided by Mesos. It can be enabled by configuring the agent flag as

--containerizers=mesos

This type is typically used when:

  • User needs to control the task environment through Mesos without having to rely on other container solutions.

  • Fine-grained OS controls are desired.

  • Custom resource isolation needs to be added for tasks.

  • User needs to control certain resource parameters (for example, disk usage limits) which are not exposed by other container solutions.

Any task which doesn't specify ContainerInfo::DockerInfo will be handled by the Mesos containerizer.

The launching process

The container launching process includes the following steps:

  • Preparation of calls is done on every isolator.

  • The launcher, responsible for forking/destroying containers, is used to fork the executor. The forked 'child' cannot execute until the isolation step is completed.

  • The...