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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

Storm on Mesos


Storm is a real-time distributed data processing system for processing data coming in at high velocities. It can process millions of records per second and is particularly useful for applications where millisecond-level latency is essential (for example, security threat detection, fraud detection, operational monitoring, and so on).

The Storm architecture

A typical Storm cluster has three types of nodes:

  • Nimbus or master node: This is responsible for submitting and distributing the computations for execution apart from handling tasks such as launching slave nodes and monitoring the execution

  • ZooKeeper node: This is responsible for coordinating the cluster

  • Supervisor node: This is responsible for starting and stopping slave nodes based on the instructions sent by the Nimbus node

Some important terms used in Storm are:

  • Tuples: This is an ordered list of elements

  • Streams: This is a sequence of tuples

  • Spouts: These are sources of streams in a computation (for example, the Twitter...