Mesos in Action

Appendix A. Case study: Mesosphere DCOS, an enterprise Mesos distribution

Throughout this book, you’ve learned about the open source Apache Mesos project and how it enables fine-grained resource scheduling for large clusters of machines in a datacenter. You’ve also learned about various use cases for Mesos, including the execution of large-scale data-processing jobs, the deployment of applications and containers, and the running of scheduled tasks. But by this point, you may be feeling overwhelmed about the sheer number of moving parts in such a system, and concerned about finding ways to ensure that certain versions of components are compatible with specific versions of others. The ideas and frameworks presented throughout part 3 of this book ...