In this chapter, I will examine the Apache Mesos project (mesos.apache.org), which is an open-source, distributed, cluster management system that enables multiple systems or frameworks to share a cluster by providing resource isolation and security. It is designed to operate on data center scale clusters and is in use by some of the world’s largest organisations, for example, PayPal and eBay.
I will examine the means by which Mesos can be sourced and built from source; I will also show how it can be tested once built. Having reached that point, I will examine ...