Mesos modules provide a way to easily extend inner workings of Mesos by creating and using shared libraries that are loaded on demand. Modules can be used to customize Mesos without having to recompiling/relinking for each specific use case. Modules can isolate external dependencies into separate libraries, thus resulting into a smaller Mesos core. Modules also make it easy to experiment with new features. For example, imagine loadable allocators that contain a VM (Lua, Python, …) which makes it possible to try out new allocator algorithms written in scripting languages without forcing those dependencies into the project. Finally, modules provide an easy way for third parties to easily extend Mesos without having to know all the internal details.
For more details, please see Mesos Modules.
To build Mesos modules, you first need to build Mesos. On a fresh clone of the Mesos repository:
cd <mesos-source>
./bootstrap
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --enable-libevent --enable-ssl --enable-install-module-dependencies
make
Building these modules requires an installation of google-protobuf.
One way is to do the following:
cd <mesos-source>/build/3rdparty/protobuf-2.6.1
./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
make
make install
Some of these modules also require systemd development headers and libraries. For example on CentOS 7:
sudo yum install systemd-devel
To start, generate the required build files and create a build directory:
./bootstrap
mkdir build
cd build
NOTE: Depending on where you installed
google-protobuf, you may need to add--with-protobuf=/path/to/protobuf/installation.
If building against an installation of Mesos:
../configure --with-mesos=/path/to/mesos/installation
If building against the Mesos source directory:
../configure --with-mesos-root=/path/to/mesos --with-mesos-build-dir=/path/to/mesos/build
Finally:
make
make check
See the README.md in each module folder for instructions.