Chapter 9. Deploying applications and managing scheduled tasks with Aurora

This chapter covers

  • Building, installing, and configuring Aurora
  • Deploying applications and Docker containers
  • Creating scheduled tasks

In the preceding two chapters, you learned about Marathon and Chronos, two popular Mesos frameworks that allow you to deploy applications and run scheduled tasks on a Mesos cluster. In this chapter, I’ll cover Apache Aurora, a Mesos framework developed by Twitter to simplify its operations around deploying applications and Cron jobs.

Although Aurora is arguably more difficult to configure and deploy than Marathon or Chronos, this book covers Aurora to provide you with options for frameworks to deploy on your own cluster. For example, ...

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