Thanks, Andrew! I will search for that and good to know Jenkins Mesos
framework also does that work.

Kenneth

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Andrew Langhorn <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Thanks for the slides, Sharma. I'll have a look this weekend!
>
>  One thing you might find interesting, Kenneth, is the Jenkins Mesos
> framework which does automatic slave provisioning and horizontal scaling.
>
>  Andrew
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 27 Feb 2015, at 21:16, "Sharma Podila" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   Hello Kenneth,
>
>  There is a little bit of work needed in the framework to do autoscaling
> of the slave cluster. Theoretically, scaling up can be relatively easy by
> watching the utilization and adding nodes. However, in order to scale down,
> the framework must support two things - some kind of bin packing so it uses
> as few slaves as possible, and a call out to which slaves can be shutdown.
> I discussed how we achieve this at last year's MesosCon and also at AWS
> re:Invent, slides from which are at
> http://www.slideshare.net/spodila/aws-reinvent-2014-talk-scheduling-using-apache-mesos-in-the-cloud
>  in case that helps you with ideas.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Kenneth Su <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>>  I am new to Mesos/Mesosphere, I have tried a test from the tutorials
>> and successfully built up a single master with two slaves, also dispatched
>> the tasks through Marathon to all slaves. It run as expected and it is
>> great to scaling app to as many instance as it needs.
>>
>>  However, I have a question came up and I tried to find out the related
>> information to see how Mesos could automatically scaling the slaves as many
>> as need on the hardware/machines, but seems not many details on how it
>> works, how the process.
>>
>>  Do we need to have another layer to watch, provision nodes on demand on
>> Paas so the new nodes could automatically join Mesos cluster, or Mesos
>> could also handle that kind of task.
>>
>>  Appreciated if any of related information/documents.
>>
>>  Thanks!
>>  Kenneth
>>
>
>

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