Hi Tim, Thank you for the quick reply. As I mentioned, we need to run short lived (using Chronos currently) and long lived (using Marathon currently) jobs. While I cannot provide elaborate details, objectively, our requirements include the following –
1. Failure callback for jobs scheduled on chronos / marathon a. Chronos doesn’t provide decent callback hooks today (please correct me if I am wrong). https://github.com/mesos/chronos/issues/473 . Even for a successfully completed job, I need to have a dependent job which makes a call to my service. b. Marathon has option of subscribing to event bus https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon/docs/event-bus.html , but we are afraid it might result in information overload, sending all sorts of events. 2. Custom health checks This is not a pre/post hook per se. But for a long running (finite = chronos/ infinite = marathon) job, we need some periodic health checks. Marathon has a basic HTTP health check, good for start, but we may need slightly more elaborate health checks. Again, Chronos doesn’t have them at all. 3. Managing spark jobs Users of our API can submit docker images, which run a spark job on the mesos. Thus, the spark driver runs inside the user docker on Chronos / marathon, and registers another mesos framework for spark, running on other mesos slaves. Now, in real world with huge amounts of data, it often happens that Spark job fails for one reason or another. This leaves some orphaned spark workers and needs manual clean up. With a custom executor, we may pass a hint that it’s a spark job docker so need to ensure appropriate cleanup in case of failure. So when you mentioned “hooks that can be performed pre and post container launch”, can you provide some examples? Are they available as plugins / extensions on mesos or docker? @Mike Michel, thank you for the powerstrip<https://github.com/ClusterHQ/powerstrip> link. Looks quite useful, will go through it in detail and see whether it can serve some of our requirements. Thanks and regards, Kapil Malik | kma...@adobe.com<mailto:kma...@adobe.com> | 33430 / 8800836581 From: Tim Chen [mailto:t...@mesosphere.io] Sent: 08 August 2015 13:42 To: user@mesos.apache.org Subject: Re: Custom docker executor Hi Kapil, What kind of pre/post actions do you like to perform? The community has been contributing hooks that can be performed pre and post container launch, so like to see what your use cases are and perhaps the new hooks can satisfy your need, or maybe even some other way that can already do what you like to achieve. Tim On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Kapil Malik <kma...@adobe.com<mailto:kma...@adobe.com>> wrote: … posting in a fresh thread Hi, We have a usecase to run multi-user workloads on mesos. Users provide docker images encapsulating application logic, which we (we = say some “Central API”) schedule on Chronos / Marathon. However, we need to run some standard pre / post steps for every docker submitted by users. We have following options – 1. Ask every user to embed their logic inside a pre-defined docker template which will perform pre/post steps. ==> This is error prone, makes us dependent on whether the users followed template, and not very popular with users either. 2. Extend every user docker (FROM <>) and find a way to add pre-post steps in our docker. Refer this docker when scheduling on chronos / marathon. ==> Building new dockers does not scale as users and applications grow 3. Write a custom executor which will perform the pre-post steps and manage the user docker lifetime. ==> Deals with user docker lifetime and is obviously complex. Is there a standard / openly available DockerExecutor which manages the docker lifetime and which I can extend to build my custom executor? For instance, do you suggest extending https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/master/src/docker/executor.cpp as a starting point? Can I access it in Java? This way I will be concerned only with my custom logic (pre/post steps) and still get benefits of a standard way to manage docker containers. Thanks and regards, Kapil Malik | kma...@adobe.com<mailto:kma...@adobe.com> | 33430 / 8800836581
