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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

Kafka on Mesos


This section will introduce Kafka and explain how to set it up on Mesos while also discussing the problems commonly encountered during the setup process.

Introduction to Kafka

Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system designed for speed, scalability, reliability, and durability. Some of the key terms used in Kafka are given as follows:

  • Topics: These are the categories where message feeds are maintained by Kafka

  • Producers: These are the upstream processes that send messages to a particular Kafka topic

  • Consumers: These are the downstream processes that listen to the incoming messages in a topic and process them as per requirements

  • Broker: Each node in a Kafka cluster is called a broker

Take a look at the following high-level diagram of Kafka (source: http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction):

A partitioned log is maintained by the Kafka cluster for every topic, which looks similar to the following (source: http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html...