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“…What you will learn Deploy and monitor a Mesos cluster Set up servers on AWS to deploy Mesos components Explore Mesos resource scheduling and the allocation module Deploy Docker-based services and applications using Mesos Marathon Configure and use SSL to protect crucial endpoints of your Mesos cluster Debug and troubleshoot services and workloads on a Mesos cluster Who this book is for This book is for DevOps and data engineers and administrators who work with large data clusters. …”

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