Hi all,
I am trying to setup a new mesos cluster and I so far I have a set of master and slave nodes working and I can get everything running. I am able to install and run a couple of sample apps, hookup jenkins etc. My main question now is Do I really need HDFS? All my artifacts (for apps) are on a protected S3 bucket or in a private docker registry. If I need HDFS, do I need to go "all in" even when I am not using hdfs as a data store but rather as a simple way to fetch files from s3; or can I get away with putting the correct core-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml in HADOOP_HOME and get away with it? It would really help how other have their mesos setup in production or what they would recommend regarding my setup? --Ankur Chauhan
