(since Marathon 1.5.0)
Native packages are built alongside with each Marathon release and are available for the following distributions:
# Setup
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv DF7D54CBE56151BF
DISTRO=$(lsb_release -is | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
CODENAME=$(lsb_release -cs)
# Add the repository
echo "deb http://repos.mesosphere.com/${DISTRO} ${CODENAME} main" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mesosphere.list
sudo apt-get -y update
# Install packages
sudo apt-get -y install mesos marathon
# Add the repository
sudo rpm -Uvh http://repos.mesosphere.com/el/6/noarch/RPMS/mesosphere-el-repo-6-2.noarch.rpm
# Install packages
sudo yum -y install mesos marathon
# Add the repository
sudo rpm -Uvh http://repos.mesosphere.com/el/7/noarch/RPMS/mesosphere-el-repo-7-2.noarch.rpm
# Install packages
sudo yum -y install mesos marathon
After installation, you can configure Marathon command-line arguments by specifying environment variables in /etc/default/marathon. For information about how environment variables map to command-line arguments, see “Specifying Command-Line Flags with Environment Variables” in the command line flags documentation.
IMPORTANT Marathon is configured to launch as the system user marathon, and this causes the default value for --mesos_user to be marathon. It is unlikely that your agents will have this user. You will want to either add the marathon user to all agents, or specify a system user that is present on all agents by setting MARATHON_MESOS_USER.
For systemd based distros, logs go to the system journal and can be viewed by running journalctl -xefu marathon.
For SystemV distros (Centos / RedHat 6), logs are written to /var/log/marathon.
For Upstart distros (Ubuntu Trusty), logs are sent to the upstart logging mechanism.