Apache Mesos Essentials

Single-node Mesos clusters

Mesos runs on Linux and Mac OS X. A single machine Mesos setup is the simplest way of trying out Mesos, so we'll go through it first. Currently, Mesos does not provide binary packages for different operating systems, and we need to compile it from the source. There are binary packages available by community.

Mac OS

Homebrew is a Linux-style package manager for Mac. Homebrew provides a formula for Mesos and compiles it locally. We need to perform the following steps to install Mesos on Mac:

1. Install Homebrew from http://brew.sh/.
2. Homebrew requires Java to be installed. Mac has Java installation by default, so we just have to make sure that JAVA_HOME is set correctly.
3. Install Mesos using Homebrew with the following command: ...