There's no way to kill a single task through the Mesos control
surfaces, but if you let the "chaos" framework launch tasks as a
privileged user, you can run wild.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Srikanth Viswanathan
<srikant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, ignore my first question. A framework can obviously kill tasks. I was
> just unsure as to whether it can kill foreign tasks, which leaves only my
> second question.
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Srikanth Viswanathan <srikant...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Appreciate all the responses here. I'll look into `mesos-execute`.
>>
>> I was thinking about the framework idea in passing but my mesos knowledge
>> isn't up to scratch yet, so I haven't been able pursue it yet. There are
>> many questions in my mind w.r.t designing this as a framework:
>> * Doesn't a framework only receive offers from mesos and launch tasks? How
>> would a framework kill tasks? Can it also kill slaves?
>> * Is it legal in mesos for one framework to kill tasks belonging to
>> another framework?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Srikanth
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Connor Doyle <connor....@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think you could approximate that tool's behavior with some scripting
>>> plus `mesos-execute` (ships with the distribution) or by writing a
>>> really simple framework that just turns things off.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Srikanth Viswanathan
>>> <srikant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Thanks. Craig and David. I'm curious about the design and use of that
>>> > tool.
>>> > Based on the video, it looks close to what I hope to do.
>>> >
>>> > A web search didn't yield any results about it, however. Does anyone
>>> > here
>>> > know more about the dcos chaos tool?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks again.
>>> > Srikanth
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:21 PM, craig w <codecr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> here's a direct link in the video
>>> >> https://youtu.be/0I6qG9RQUnY?t=389
>>> >>
>>> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:17 PM, David Wood <daw...@us.ibm.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The DCOS tutorial mentions a chaos tool at the end of the video.  Not
>>> >>> sure if that's what your looking for, but it might be something to
>>> >>> follow up
>>> >>> on somehow.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> https://mesosphere.com/learn/
>>> >>>
>>> >>> David Wood
>>> >>> Computing Systems for Wireless Networks
>>> >>> IBM TJ Watson Research Center
>>> >>> daw...@us.ibm.com
>>> >>> 914-945-4923 (office), 914-396-6515 (mobile)
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> From:        Srikanth Viswanathan <srikant...@gmail.com>
>>> >>> To:        user@mesos.apache.org
>>> >>> Date:        02/25/2016 12:01 PM
>>> >>> Subject:        "Chaos monkey" for mesos?
>>> >>> ________________________________
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Has there been any work done to develop a "chaos monkey" analogue for
>>> >>> Mesos? I have been researching on how to write one, but I wanted to
>>> >>> know if
>>> >>> there's any work already available that I can take a look at for
>>> >>> comparison,
>>> >>> and possibly re-use.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The end goal would be something loaded into Mesos or separate from
>>> >>> Mesos
>>> >>> that randomly kills tasks. Could it be something as simple as an
>>> >>> application
>>> >>> that uses the KILL HTTP request from the scheduler API to kill tasks?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Thanks.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Srikanth
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >>
>>> >> https://github.com/mindscratch
>>> >> https://www.google.com/+CraigWickesser
>>> >> https://twitter.com/mind_scratch
>>> >> https://twitter.com/craig_links
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> connor
>>
>>
>



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