Andrew, Updating these docs would be great! I think this would be a welcome change.
In terms of packaging, it would be good to mention the binaries produced by the upstream project as well, in addition to Mesosphere. - Patrick On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Andrew Ash <and...@andrewash.com> wrote: > The docs for how to run Spark on Mesos have changed very little since > 0.6.0, but setting it up is much easier now than then. Does it make sense > to revamp with the below changes? > > > You no longer need to build mesos yourself as pre-built versions are > available from Mesosphere: http://mesosphere.io/downloads/ > > And the instructions guide you towards compiling your own distribution of > Spark, when you can use the prebuilt versions of Spark as well. > > > I'd like to split that portion of the documentation into two sections, a > build-from-scratch section and a use-prebuilt section. The new outline > would look something like this: > > > *Running Spark on Mesos* > > Installing Mesos > - using prebuilt (recommended) > - pointer to mesosphere's packages > - from scratch > - (similar to current) > > > Connecting Spark to Mesos > - loading distribution into an accessible location > - Spark settings > > Mesos Run Modes > - (same as current) > > Running Alongside Hadoop > - (trim this down) > > > > Does that work for people? > > > Thanks! > Andrew > > > PS Basically all the same: > > http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.6.0/running-on-mesos.html > http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.6.2/running-on-mesos.html > http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.7.3/running-on-mesos.html > http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.8.1/running-on-mesos.html > http://spark.apache.org/docs/0.9.1/running-on-mesos.html > https://people.apache.org/~pwendell/spark-1.0.0-rc3-docs/running-on-mesos.html
