One of the major goals to provide networking-related support in Mesos was to develop a pluggable architecture leveraging which custom networking mechanisms could be implemented by users as per their requirements. Since networking requirements vary across different deployment scenarios (cloud, on-premise, private cloud, or other hybrid models), it is not practical to create a monolithic networking mechanism that caters to all needs. Mesos' pluggable architecture proves to be very useful in tackling this.
To provide networking support, many opt-in extensions were introduced in Mesos components from version 0.25.0 onwards. The opt-in structure allows existing frameworks without networking support to continue operating seamlessly on newer Mesos versions. Mesos enables integration with other networking mechanisms, and provides features like service discovery, IP per container, and isolation of tasks.
Networking support is provided through a Mesos module,...
