What you need for this book

We recommend one server or virtual machine installed with Ubuntu 14.04 as a development environment for following most of the recipes in this book. To test the high availability recipes in Chapter 2, Implementing High Availability with Apache ZooKeepera minimum of six servers or virtual machines is required. Chapters 1, Getting Started with Apache Mesosand Chapter 2, Implementing High Availability with Apache ZooKeeperwill guide you through installing and configuring Mesos and ZooKeeper on multiple operating systems but we recommend mastering the recipes in chapters 3 – 8 on Ubuntu 14.04 before adapting them for other supported operating systems.