Developing Marathon in a Virtual Machine

This will enable you to run a local version of Marathon, for development purposes, without having to compile and configure a local Mesos environment.

  1. Ensure your local Marathon has been compiled and assembled. In the marathon directory:

     sbt package
    
  2. Does your local Marathon have custom Javascript changes that you expect to see? If so you’ll need to compile the assets. Here is a guide to working on assets: Compiling Assets.

  3. Clone the playa-mesos repository. Note that playa-mesos ships with a version of Mesos, Marathon, and ZooKeeper pre-configured.

  4. Sync local folders into Vagrant image

    Open playa-mesos/Vagrantfile and edit the override.vm.synced_folder setting:

    config.vm.synced_folder '</path/to/marathon/parent>', '/vagrant'
    

    Here </path/to/marathon/parent> is the absolute path to the folder containing Marathon.

  5. SSH into your Vagrant image

     $ vagrant up # if not already running otherwise `vagrant reload`
     $ vagrant ssh
    
  6. Check that your folders are synced correctly

    $ cd /vagrant/
    $ ls
    marathon playa-mesos ...
    
  7. Stop the Marathon that is pre-configured in the Vagrant image

     $ sudo stop marathon
    
  8. Add start-marathon alias to start your own version of Marathon

     $ nano ~/.bash_aliases
    

    add the following in the top of that file and save it:

     # setup marathon easy run
     alias 'start-marathon'='/vagrant/marathon/bin/start --master zk://localhost:2181/mesos --zk zk://localhost:2181/marathon --assets_path src/main/resources/assets'
    
  9. Refresh the terminal and run the start-marathon command in the marathon folder

    $ . ~/.bashrc
    $ start-marathon
    
  10. Load the Marathon UI in your browser: http://10.141.141.10:8080

When you’re done, use vagrant halt to shut down the Vagrant instance and spare your battery life.