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    Minimesos on AWS

    Whilst creating our reference microservices application for Weave, I wanted to use minimesos as a controlled Mesos environment for demos and testing. The key benefit for this use case was the static d...

    7 min read

    Writing a Mesos Framework from scratch with Mesos-starter

    This week it's time to show you how easy it is to get started with writing a Mesos scheduler. Imagine just having a Docker Image, but you know that you further down the line need to add some pretty co...

    A step towards the future of configuration and infrastructure management with Nix

    Recently, I’ve been experimenting with the Nix ecosystem. It offers an interesting and more integrated alternative than traditional configuration and infrastructure management systems such as Puppet, ...

    6 min read

    Minimesos gets a REST API - finding the lightest Java web framework

    We started work with Frank on what is probably the most important new feature of minimesos in recent months - a REST API that gives easy access to minimesos from any language. Minimesos is a testing f...

    minimesos 0.9.0 - new cli commands, Marathon tokens and Mesos workshop

    Last week we released minimesos 0.9.0. You can install it using the usual installer command: curl -sSL https://minimesos.org/install | sh. The Docker images are available on Docker Hub and the jar is ...

    It Orchestrated On My Machine - ContainerPilot and Minimesos for Travelling Orchestration

    I am just back from ContainerSummit where I was working with Casey Bisson from Joyent. We got talking about how things can work on one machine but not on another, say, in production. This is known as ...

    10 min read

    Moving minimesos CI from Jenkins to Travis

    What would the process of updating the code and continuous integration environment look like in an ideal world?

    Service discovery in minimesos using Consul

    At Container Solutions, we’ve been working hard on minimesos, our testing infrastructure for Mesos frameworks. To make it easier for frameworks to find their components, and for the Mesos master and a...

    8 min read

    Terraform provider for Cobbler

    At Container Solutions we constantly push the boundaries of the tools we work with. While exploring programmable infrastructure we combine the available tools in new ways. Sometimes it works and somet...