Tom is absolutely correct--you also need to ensure that your "special
tasks" run as a user which is assigned a role w/ a special reservation to
ensure they can always launch.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Tom Arnfeld <t...@duedil.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure if I'm fully aware of the use case but if you use a different
> framework (aka Marathon) to launch these services, should the service die
> and need to be re-launched (or even the slave restarts) could you not be in
> a position where another framework has consumed all resources on that slave
> and your "core" tasks cannot launch?
>
> Maybe if you're just using Marathon it might provide a sort of priority to
> decide who gets what resources first, but with multiple frameworks you
> might need to look into the slave resource reservations and framework roles.
>
> FWIW We're configuring these things out of band (via Chef to be specific).
>
> Hope this helps!
>
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>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Itamar Ostricher <ita...@yowza3d.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if the best approach to do what I want is to use mesos
>> itself, or other Linux system tools.
>>
>> There are a bunch of services that our framework assumes are running on
>> all participating slaves (e.g. logging service, data-bridge service, etc.).
>> One approach to do that is in the infrastructure level, making sure that
>> slave nodes are configured correctly (e.g. with pre-configured images, or
>> other provisioning systems).
>> Another approach would be to use mesos itself (maybe with something like
>> Marathon) to schedule these services on all slave nodes.
>>
>> The advantage of the mesos-based approach is that it becomes trivial to
>> account for the resource consumption of said services (e.g. make sure
>> there's always at least 1 CPU dedicated to this).
>> I'm not sure how to achieve something similar with the system-approach.
>>
>> Anyone has any insights on this?
>>
>
>

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