There's a bit of ongoing work on decoupling ZK from Mesos, but this is still some way off. See this epic: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1806 and it's children.
Most likely, you run into headaches regardless of ZK/Consul/Etcd. All have their own set of quirks. (i.e. the grass is always greener on the other side.) On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 1:10 PM, kant kodali <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to startup a new cluster but we have 4 people here who had > manage large clusters using zookeeper and everyone seem to come to the > consensus that they want to avoid zookeeper. > > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 12:46 PM, Charles Allen [email protected] > wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, are you wanting to avoid ZK because you already have to >> use etcd? or are you starting up a new cluster and just really don't want >> to start off with ZK? (i've been wondering how severe the ZK integration >> requirement is myself) >> >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:43 PM kant kodali <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> can we use mesos and spark with consul or etcd? If we can we would be >> happy to avoid zookeeper. >> >> Thanks! >> >>

