Deploying infrastructure with DC/OS
DC/OS stands for Datacenter Operating System. DC/OS is built and maintained by Mesosphere. Mesosphere offers an open source version of DC/OS, as well as an enterprise version. You can think of DC/OS as an enterprise-ready version of Mesos with sophisticated features and a collection of installable tools and frameworks. One of the trickiest parts of managing your own Mesos cluster is orchestrating the frameworks. DC/OS has made this task much easier with its command-line interface. You could potentially install the DC/OS CLI on your local computer and manage any remote DC/OS cluster. Using the CLI, you can install Marathon, submit Docker containers, and so on. In this recipe, we will be going over the DC/OS interface to understand its features and capabilities.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will be orchestrating a DC/OS cluster on AWS and then we will go over the basics of DC/OS. There are several ways you can orchestrate a DC/OS cluster: using Vagrant...