For what I understand to be your use case, I will have queuing services that the container queries for its next task. E.g. Kafka "queues"
Please pardon typo's ... sent from mobile [email protected] MOBILE: 415.501.0198 (California) -------- Original message --------From: Gilbert Song <[email protected]> Date: 3/23/18 13:47 (GMT-08:00) To: user <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Communicate with a container while using Mesos unified container runtime No, this feature based on Container Attach/Exec, which was included starting from Mesos 1.2.0. I would recommend an upgrade to Mesos 1.4.1 or 1.3.2. On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 5:46 PM, Karan Pradhan <[email protected]> wrote: On 2018/03/22 23:16:06, Gilbert Song <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Karan, > > It does not seem to me that launching more mesos containers would add more > overheads. > > If you want to achieve *docker exec* for debugging purpose, Mesos supports > that (not in Mesos CLI yet /cc Armand and Kevin), but you could still rely > on dc/os CLI > <https://docs.mesosphere.com/1.11/monitoring/debugging/task-exec/> to do > that given you have the taskId. > > Gilbert > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Karan Pradhan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > On 2018/03/21 18:06:48, Gilbert Song <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Karan, > > > > > > Before figuring out some ways to achieve this with Mesos, I would like to > > > better understand your use cases. > > > > > > Do you mean you rely on `docker attach/exec` to send commands to an > > > existing running container? > > > > > > Is there any reason that keeps you from launching a container for each > > > batch job? > > > > > > Gilbert > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:29 AM, [email protected] < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I was docker for running my batch job in which I would follow this > > > > approach: > > > > > > > > 1. Start the docker container > > > > 2. Send commands to the running Docker container with the help of > > docker > > > > python client for each batch of objects. > > > > 3. After all the batches are processed by the docker, shut down the > > > > container. > > > > > > > > I wanted to achieve the same with the help of Mesos and Marathon to > > spin > > > > up containers and submit commands per batch. > > > > But looking a the documents it looks like that this behavior is not > > > > achievable as when Mesos spin up a Docker container with the help of > > Mesos > > > > containerizer and docker/runtime isolation you can submit only one > > command > > > > after which the Sesos framework is killed. > > > > > > > > It would be great if someone could point me to a way to achieve this > > using > > > > Mesos containerizer? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Karan > > > > > > > > > Hi Gilbert, > > Thanks for taking time answering my question. > > > > Yes as you mentioned I use docker exec to run commands in the container. > > There is no particular reason why we don't run new docker. Would that add > > overhead if I had multiple batches which need to be processed? > > > > Do you know if docker exec is possible on a mesos container running with > > docker/runtime isolation? > > > > Thanks, > > Karan > > > Thanks Gilbert. I have built mesos 1.1.1 from the apache distribution, would dc/os cli work for this version too?

