Andrew Nelson and Tom Twyman spoke on Wednesday morning about Apache Mesos and Marathon at VMworld. During their session they showed a demo of a cluster deployment — although they experienced a couple technical difficulties. The session covered the overall basics of how to operationalize Cloud Native Applications using Apache Mesos, Mesosphere Marathon and Docker on a VMware private cloud.
Here is an alternate cut of the demo they showed yesterday.
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The video walks a user through a deployment of a Apache Mesos cluster using VMware Big Data Extensions, shows the running UI for Apache Mesos, Mesosphere Marathon and Chronos. Behind the scenes, HAProxy has been installed to automatically add any workloads launched and Docker support on each node. After the deployment is complete, a NGiNX Docker workload is launched into Marathon using the API. The workload is scaled from 1 to 6 instances and shows the HAProxy ruleset being updated to include each instance that is running. Finally, the video shows the Apache Mesos cluster itself being scaled while the same NGiNX workload is still running.
A quick 3-minute video showing how versatile Cloud Native Apps on top of VMware infrastructure can be to enable developers to take advantages of the newest technologies for running containers.
