Apache ZooKeeper is a distributed key-value store that provides centralized coordination, synchronization, naming, and group services for distributed systems. ZooKeeper was developed as an independent system that can be integrated with other large distributed systems so that developers can focus on distributed application development and not on coordination services. Mesos depends on ZooKeeper for leader election so configuring Mesos with ZooKeeper is critical to running a highly available Mesos cluster. We will guide you through installing ZooKeeper and then configuring it with Mesos.
In the following recipes, we will give examples for configuring both a single development Mesos instance with ZooKeeper and for a highly available, multi-master Mesos cluster with ZooKeeper. ZooKeeper is not required to run a single instance of Mesos. However, you may need to deploy...
