As part of work to improve storage support in Mesos [1], we will be adding the ability to launch containers via the Mesos Containerizer, without going through the traditional method (i.e. framework -> offer cycle -> launch executor/task -> status updates -> etc). Below I've linked a short design document for interacting with these "standalone" containers:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DZVfZAOLtqd8kbiWHD4j29LzaYcNCh1k6QQnbggyTio/ Please feel free to comment on the doc (or on this thread) if you have any comments or suggestions! Thanks! [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/02871cb51ce6d0bec24770bcaaba07b52dcda0cdb87cbdd0871b82d1@%3Cdev.mesos.apache.org%3E
