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Mesosphere inter-service communication using Marathon

I'm currently looking into Mesosphere DCOS to run multiple micro-services using Docker containers. Each micro-services code is already built by my CI into a docker container and uploader to a private container repo.

If I now deploy container A and container B as two different apps using Marathon, how would app A be able to reach app B? Do I need additional service discovery like Consul?

Would be great if I could have some insights here and maybe even some links / docu to get me started :)

Solution

  • The current solution would be to use some kind service discovery. DCOS already comes with MesosDNS and it will automatically create an DNS entry for each of your containers started by marathon. See here for details on using MesosDNS on DCOS.

    Hope this helped!

    BTW: Feel free to contact the DCOS support directly via the little chat icon in the DCOS UI.