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Published inMay 2016
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Dipa Dubhashi
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Dipa Dubhashi

Dipa Dubhashi is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and heads product management at Sigmoid. His prior experience includes consulting with ZS Associates besides founding his own start-up. Dipa specializes in envisioning enterprise big data products, developing their roadmaps, and managing their development to solve customer use cases across multiple industries. He advises several leading start-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies about architecting and implementing their next-generation big data solutions. Dipa has also developed a course on Apache Spark for a leading online education portal and is a regular speaker at big data meetups and conferences.
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Akhil Das
Akhil Das
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Akhil Das

Akhil Das is a senior software developer at Sigmoid primarily focusing on distributed computing, real-time analytics, performance optimization, and application scaling problems using a wide variety of technologies such as Apache Spark and Mesos, among others. He contributes actively to the Apache Spark project and is a regular speaker at big data conferences and meetups, MesosCon 2015 being the most recent one.
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Deploying and configuring a Mesos cluster using Ansible


Ansible is one of the popular infrastructure automation tools commonly used by system administrators today and recently acquired by Red Hat. Nodes are managed through Secure Shell (SSH) and require only Python support. Ansible has open sourced a lot of playbooks, including an ansible-mesos one that we will discuss in this section.

The ansible-mesos playbook can be used to install and configure a Mesos cluster with customized master as well as slave setup options. Currently, it supports Ubuntu and CentOS/Red Hat operating system-powered machines. The ansible-mesos playbook also supports setting specific slave executors and hence can be run with native Docker support.

Installing Ansible

Ansible installation is only required on a single machine. It does not require a database, nor does it need to keep a daemon running all the time. It uses SSH to manage the cluster and requires Python (versions 2.6 or 2.7) to be installed on the machine...

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Published in: May 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785886249

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Dipa Dubhashi

Dipa Dubhashi is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and heads product management at Sigmoid. His prior experience includes consulting with ZS Associates besides founding his own start-up. Dipa specializes in envisioning enterprise big data products, developing their roadmaps, and managing their development to solve customer use cases across multiple industries. He advises several leading start-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies about architecting and implementing their next-generation big data solutions. Dipa has also developed a course on Apache Spark for a leading online education portal and is a regular speaker at big data meetups and conferences.
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Akhil Das

Akhil Das is a senior software developer at Sigmoid primarily focusing on distributed computing, real-time analytics, performance optimization, and application scaling problems using a wide variety of technologies such as Apache Spark and Mesos, among others. He contributes actively to the Apache Spark project and is a regular speaker at big data conferences and meetups, MesosCon 2015 being the most recent one.
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