Cluster management with Mesos and Marathon

As we discussed in the previous section, there are many cluster management solutions or container orchestration tools available. Different organizations choose different solutions to address problems based on their environment. Many organizations choose Kubernetes or Mesos with a framework such as Marathon. In most cases, Docker is used as a default containerization method to package and deploy workloads.

For the rest of this chapter, we will show how Mesos works with Marathon to provide the required cluster management capability. Mesos is used by many organizations, including Twitter, Airbnb, Apple, eBay, Netflix, PayPal, Uber, Yelp, and many others.

Diving deep into Mesos

Mesos can be treated as a data center kernel. DCOS is the commercial version of Mesos supported by Mesosphere. In order to run multiple tasks on one node, Mesos uses resource isolation concepts. Mesos relies on the Linux kernel's cgroups to achieve resource isolation similar...