Apache Mesos

Summary

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager for sharing distributed application frameworks. This change brings Mesos to Fedora, which many have called a micro-kernel for the data center.

Owner

Name: Timothy St. Clair
Email: tstclair@redhat.com
Release notes owner:

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 21
Last updated: 25 March 2014
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. It can run Hadoop, MPI, Hypertable, Spark, and other applications on a dynamically shared pool of nodes.

Benefit to Fedora

Apache Mesos is an exciting project for Fedora in that it enables fine grained resource control and coordination for frameworks for both big data and cloud applications.

Scope

Proposal owners: Currently our Mesos package has been accepted into Fedora. It should feature all of the functionality available from the upstream release.

Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A

How To Test

Single Node Cluster *DEFAULT*
- Simply run systemctl start mesos-master mesos-slave
- Navigate to browser to localhost:5050 check slaves
Multiple Node Cluster
- Master Node
  - Run systemctl start mesos-master
- Slave Node
  - Edit the slave nodes /etc/mesos/mesos-slave-env.sh file
  - set export MESOS_master=master_node_name:5050
  - Run systemctl start mesos-slave
  - Navigate to browser to master_node_name:5050 check slaves

TBD: Link to a full blog posting

User Experience

Users will be able to setup and configure a cluster Mesos cluster without relying on third-party software distributions.

Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks product? N/A

Documentation