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Mesos DC/OS Hands-On

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In this blog, I will cover some of the hands-on stuff that I tried with Opensource DC/OS. I created DC/OS cluster using Vagrant and deployed multi-instance nginx webserver using Marathon. For Mesos FAQ, please refer to my previous blog.

I followed the instructions here to create DC/OS Vagrant cluster.

Pre-requisites

I tried DC/OS Vagrant cluster in my Windows machine. Virtualbox and Vagrant needs to be installed before-hand.

Setting up cluster

Following are the instructions that I used to setup the cluster:

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Mesos and Mesosphere – FAQ

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The most popular Container Orchestration solutions available in the market are Kubernetes, Swarm and Mesos. I have used Kubernetes and Swarm, but never got a chance to use Mesos or DC/OS. There were a bunch of questions I had about Mesos and DC/OS and I never got the time to explore that. Recently, I saw the announcement about Mesosphere opensourcing DC/OS and I found this as a perfect opportunity for me to try out Opensource DC/OS. In this blog, I have captured the answers to questions I had regarding Mesos and DC/OS. In the next blog, I will cover some hands-on that I did with Opensource DC/OS.

What is the relationship between Apache Mesos, Opensource DC/OS and Enterprise DC/OS?

Apache Mesos is the Opensource distributed orchestrator for Container as well as non-Container workloads. Both Opensource DC/OS and Enterprise DC/OS are built on top of Apache Mesos. Opensource DC/OS adds  Service discovery, Universe package for different frameworks, CLI and GUI support for management and Volume support for persistent storage. Enterprise DC/OS adds enterprise features around security, performance, networking, compliance, monitoring and multi-team support that the Opensource DC/OS project does not include. Complete list of differences between Opensource and Enterprise DC/OS are captured here.

What does Mesosphere do and how it is related to Apache Mesos?

Mesosphere company has products that are built on top of Apache Mesos. Lot of folks working in Mesosphere contribute to both Apache Mesos and Opensource DC/OS. Mesosphere has the following products currently:

  • DC/OS Enterprise – Orchestration solution
  • Velocity- CI, CD solution
  • Infinity – Big data solution

Why DC/OS is called OS?

Sometimes folks get confused thinking Mesos being a Container optimized OS like CoreOS, Atomic. Mesos is not a Container optimized OS. Similar to the way Desktop OS provides resource management in a single host, DC/OS provides cluster management across entire cluster. Mesos master(including first level scheduler) and agent are perceived as kernel components and user space components include frameworks, user space applications, dns and load balancers. The kernel provides primitives for the frameworks.

What are Mesos frameworks and why they are needed?

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Microservices Infrastructure using Mantl

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Mantl is an Open source project from Cisco and it provides an integrated solution to deploy distributed Microservices. Any company deploying Microservices has to integrate different components before the solution becomes production ready. Mantl makes it easier by integrating the different components and providing the glue software that integrates the components. In this blog, I will cover the following:

  • Distributed Microservice infrastructure components and the need for Mantl.
  • Mantl Architecture.
  • Mantl installation using Vagrant
  • Mantl installation using AWS public cloud

Microservices infrastructure

Following are typical components in Container based Microservices infrastructure:

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