Learn Apache Mesos: A beginner’s guide to scalable cluster management and deployment

Manuj Aggarwal

Oct 2018 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Scale applications with high availability and optimized resource management across data centersKey FeaturesCreate clusters and perform scheduling, logging, and resource administration with MesosExplore practical examples of managing complex clusters at scale with real-world dataWrite native Mesos frameworks with PythonBook Description

Apache Mesos is an open source cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications or frameworks. This book will help you build a strong foundation of Mesos' capabilities along with practical examples to support the concepts explained throughout the book.

Learn Apache Mesos dives straight into how Mesos works. You will be introduced to the distributed system and its challenges and then learn how you can use Mesos and its framework to solve data problems. You will also gain a full understanding of Mesos' internal mechanisms and get equipped to use Mesos and develop applications. Furthermore, this book lets you explore all the steps required to create highly available clusters and build your own Mesos frameworks. You will also cover application deployment and monitoring.

By the end of this book, you will have learned how to use Mesos to make full use of machines and how to simplify data center maintenance.

What you will learnDeploy and monitor a Mesos clusterSet up servers on AWS to deploy Mesos componentsExplore Mesos resource scheduling and the allocation moduleDeploy Docker-based services and applications using Mesos MarathonConfigure and use SSL to protect crucial endpoints of your Mesos clusterDebug and troubleshoot services and workloads on a Mesos clusterWho this book is for

This book is for DevOps and data engineers and administrators who work with large data clusters. You’ll also find this book useful if you have experience working with virtualization, databases, and platforms such as Hadoop and Spark. Some experience in database administration and design will help you get the most out of this book.

About the author

Manuj Aggarwal is an entrepreneur, investor, and technology enthusiast. Over the last few years, he has been a business owner, technical architect, CTO, coder, start up consultant, and more. Currently, he is the principal consultant, architect, and CTO of a software consulting company, TetraNoodle Technologies, based in Vancouver, Canada. He works with various start-ups on a number of cutting edge and interesting problems. Whether it is ideation and the refining of your start up idea, or building a dream team to execute the idea, he provides a diverse set of solutions that help these start-ups to succeed in their plans. He has been active in the software industry since 1997, and has worked with early-stage businesses through to Fortune 100 mega-corporations. He is passionate about sharing all the knowledge that he has acquired over the years. He is particularly interested in helping technical and non-technical entrepreneurs, founders, and co-founders of tech start-ups.