Building Applications on Mesos

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. Conventions Used in This Book
   2. Safari® Books Online
   3. How to Contact Us
   4. Acknowledgments
2. 1. Introduction to Mesos
   1. How to Use Mesos
   2. Mesos as a Deployment System
   3. Mesos as an Execution Platform
   4. How This Book Is Structured
   5. Summary
3. 2. Getting Started with Mesos
   1. Frameworks
   2. Masters and Slaves
      1. The Masters
      2. The Slaves
   3. Resources
      1. Configuring Custom Resources
      2. Configuring Slave Attributes
   4. Roles
      1. Static and Dynamic Slave Reservations
   5. Tasks and Executors
      1. CommandExecutor
   6. Understanding mesos.proto
   7. Not Managed by Mesos
   8. Summary
4. 3. Porting an Existing Application to Mesos
   1. Moving a Web Application to Mesos
   2. Setting Up Marathon
   3. Using Marathon
      1. Scaling Your Application
      2. Using Placement Constraints
      3. Running Dockerized Applications
      4. Health Checks
      5. Application Versioning and Rolling Upgrades
      6. The Event Bus
      7. Setting Up HAProxy with Marathon
   4. Running Mesos Frameworks on Marathon
      1. What Is Chronos?
      2. Running Chronos on Marathon
      3. Chronos Operational Concerns
      4. Chronos on Marathon: Summary
   5. Alternatives to Marathon + Chronos
      1. Singularity
      2. Aurora
   6. Summary
5. 4. Creating a New Framework for Mesos
   1. The Scheduler
      1. Pool of Servers Scheduler
      2. Work Queue Scheduler
      3. Job Processor Scheduler
   2. Useless Remote BASH
   3. Implementing a Basic Job Processor
   4. Matching Tasks to Offers
      1. Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Offers and Jobs
   5. Adding High Availability
   6. Adding Reconciliation
   7. Advanced Scheduler Techniques
      1. Distributed Communication
      2. Forced Failover
      3. Consolidating Offers
      4. Hardening Your Scheduler
      5. Framework UI
      6. Allocating Ports
      7. Checkpointing
      8. CommandInfo
   8. Summary
6. 5. Building a Mesos Executor
   1. The Executor
      1. Building a Work Queue’s Worker
      2. Running Pickled Tasks
      3. Sharing Resources
      4. Better Babysitting
      5. Augmented Logging
   2. Rewriting the CommandExecutor
   3. Bootstrapping Executor Installation
   4. Adding Heartbeats
   5. Advanced Executor Features
      1. Progress Reporting
      2. Adding Remote Logging
      3. Multiple Tasks
   6. Summary
7. 6. Advanced Topics in Mesos
   1. Libprocess and the Actor Model
   2. The Consistency Model
      1. How Is Slave Failure Handled?
      2. How Is Master Failure Handled? (Or, the Registry)
      3. Reconciliation During Failover
   3. Containerizers
      1. Using Docker
   4. The New Offer API
      1. Framework Dynamic Reservations API
      2. Persistent Volumes for Databases
   5. Summary
8. 7. The Future of Mesos
   1. Multitenant Workloads
   2. Oversubscription
   3. Databases and Turnkey Infrastructure
   4. IP per Container
   5. Summary
9. Index