Cloud Native – Page 8 – Virtual Elephant

March 31, 2015

Upgrading Apache Mesos & Marathon on VMware Big Data Extensions

There are a couple new versions for both Apache Mesos and Mesosphere Marathon. Since one of the great things about using VMware Big Data Extensions to handle the deployment and management of clusters is the ability to ensure control of the packages and versions within the SDLC. There were a few changes to be made within Chef to support Mesos […]

February 21, 2015

HAProxy support for Mesos in vSphere Big Data Extensions

I realized late last night the current vSphere Big Data Extensions fling does not have HAProxy built into it for the Mesos cluster deployments. After a bit of reading and testing new pieces inside the Chef recipes, I have added support so that HAProxy is running on all of the Mesos nodes. The first thing is to add the HAProxy […]