Building Applications on Mesos: Leveraging Resilient, Scalable, and Distributed Systems

How can Apache Mesos make a difference in your organization? With this practical guide, youâ ll learn how this cluster manager directs your datacenterâ s resources, and provides real time APIs for interacting with (and developing for) the entire cluster. Youâ ll learn how to use Mesos as a deployment system, like Ansible or Chef, and as an execution platform for building and hosting higher-level applications, like Hadoop.

Author David Greenberg shows you how Mesos manages your entire datacenter as a single logical entity, eliminating the need to assign fixed sets of machines to applications. Youâ ll quickly discover why Mesos is the ultimate DevOps tool.

• Understand Mesos architecture, and learn how it manages CPU, memory, and other resources across a cluster
• Build an application on top of Mesos with Marathon, a platform for hosting services on Mesos
• Create new, production-ready frameworks for Mesos
• Write a custom executor to provide richer interaction between the Mesos scheduler and workers
• Dive into advanced topics, including the reconciliation process, Docker integration, dynamic reservations, and persistent volumes
• Learn about todayâ s Mesos initiatives that will likely become tomorrowâ s features