Understanding the Mesos and Marathon interface
Now that we have a fully functional Mesos cluster with the Marathon framework, we are ready to spin off new tasks (or Docker containers) to Marathon. Before we do that, it is highly important that we understand the Mesos and Marathon web interface.
Getting ready
We already know that the Mesos web UI is located at port 5050
. To access the web UI, open http://192.168.99.100:5050
in a web browser. Similarly, Marathon has a sophisticated web interface located at port 8080
. To access the Marathon web UI, open http://192.168.99.100:8080
in another tab of your web browser.
How to do it...
First, let's try to get familiar with the Mesos interface.
The Mesos interface
There are four tabs in the Mesos web UI. Let's go one by one. The first one is the Mesos home page.
The Mesos home page
This is where you actually get to see most of the information about your tasks. Let's start with the left-hand side menu pane. The first section of the pane is...