Anything Linux, Big Data, Containerization, Graph Database and Cloud: Apache Mesos: Mesos + Marathon + Docker = ?

In my previous post, I talked about merging resources from multiple nodes into one using Apache Mesos.

I also talked about the 2 reasons I decided to pick up Mesos:
(1) Google Kubernetes
(2) Docker

In this post, I am going to share the method you can use to deploy Docker container on a Mesos cluster.

* Mesos and Zookeeper have to be up and running. For installation instruction, please refer to my previous post.
** I used CentOS 6.6 as the platform. So, some commands might differ on other platforms.
*** Make sure "docker-io" "(the Docker package) is installed and the daemon is running on all Mesos slave nodes.

(1) Check and update (if needed) the /etc/mesos/zk file on the node you wish to install Marathon.

vi /etc/mesos/zk

** Make sure the IP address of the Zookeeper server is written there

(2) Install Marathon (using the Mesosphere repository created in the previous post) on the node selected above (Master node is recommended for testing purpose and ease of maintenance):

yum install marathon

(3) Make sure Marathon is up and running after the installation. Otherwise, start it using:

initctl start marathon

** Use "ps -ef" command to verify the Marathon process is running with the proper IP addresses (instead of 'localhost') of the zookeeper-server and Master node. If it is not, check the /etc/mesos/zk file again and restart.

(4) Update all the Mesos slave nodes with the following:

echo 'docker,mesos' > /etc/mesos-slave/containerizers

echo '5 mins' > /etc/mesos-slave/executor_registration_timeout

(5) Restart all the Mesos slave nodes:

initctl restart mesos-slave

(6) By now, you should be ready to deploy Docker container on the Mesos cluster. To do so, you have to create a JSON file for the Docker container you wish to deploy:

Eg.

{
"container": {
"type": "DOCKER",
"docker": {
"image": "192.168.0.210:5000/centos63:httpd",
"network": "HOST"
}
},
"id": "centos63",
"instances": 1,
"cpus": 4,
"mem": 2048,
"uris": [],
"cmd": "/usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND"

}

There are a few things to take note:

(a) For the "image" parameter, you would need to specify an image that is reachable by all of the Mesos slaves, because you would not know for sure which slave or slaves the Master will select to run the container.

** If you are using your own insecured private registry, please make sure you edit the docker "default" file (eg. /etc/sysconfig/docker or /etc/default/docker) to declare the registry as insecured and restart the Docker service (service docker restart):

other_args="--insecure-registry 192.168.0.210:5000"

(b) AFAIK, Mesos (0.21.1) only support 2 network modes now - HOST or BRIDGE.

(7) Once the JSON file is ready, you can submit to Marathon using the POST method:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://<marathon host>:8080/v2/apps -d@<JSON filename>