A Mesos framework utilizing Docker for scaling a Ceph cluster. It aims to be a fast and reliable solution.
For now, it can only:

• Start 1 mon, 3 osd, 1 radosgw. Each on a slave. Based on ceph-docker
• Accept Restful flexup request for launching a new osd to a new slave

Scaling and monitoring large Ceph cluster in production Mesos environment in an easy way is our goal. And it's in progress. Check below for updates ( Your ideas are welcome ).

• Multiple OSDs on one disk
• Multiple OSDs on dedicated disks
• Journals on dedicated disks
• Flexdown OSD
• Launch RBD, MDS
• TBD

1. A Mesos cluster with Docker installed (duh). We only support CentOS 7 distribution at present and requires at least 5 slaves.
2. Slaves in Mesos have network connection to download Docker images
3. install libmicrohttpd in all slaves.

yum -y install libmicrohttpd

Pick a host to setup the build environment. Make sure the host can access your Mesos cluster.

sudo rpm -Uvh http://repos.mesosphere.io/el/7/noarch/RPMS/mesosphere-el-repo-7-1.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install -y epel-release
sudo yum groupinstall -y "Development Tools"
sudo yum install -y cmake mesos protobuf-devel boost-devel gflags-devel glog-devel yaml-cpp-devel  jsoncpp-devel libmicrohttpd-devel zeromq3-devel gmock-devel gtest-devel

Then clone ceph-mesos and build.

git clone 
cd ceph-mesos
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

After that, you'll see "ceph-mesos", "ceph-mesos-executor", "ceph-mesos-tests" , "cephmesos.yml" , "ceph.conf" and "cephmesos.d" in the build directory.

Modify the cephmesos.yml, you must populate the master and zookeeper fields, can leave other field default:

master:     zk://mm01:2181,mm02:2181,mm03:2181/mesos
zookeeper:  zk://mm01:2181,mm02:2181,mm03:2181

And start ceph-mesos using below command:

./ceph-mesos -config cephmesos.yml

You can check the Mesos web console to see your ceph cluster now. After about 10 mins(depend on your network speed), you'll see 5 active tasks running there.

NOTE: Currently, if "ceph-meos" (the scheduler) stops, all containers will be removed. And restart "ceph-mesos" will clear your data( in slave's "~/ceph_config_root" which is bind-mounted by Docker container) and start a new ceph cluster. We will improve this in the near future.

ceph-mesos can accept json format request and start new OSD(s) if there are available hosts.

curl -d '{"instances":2,"profile":"osd"}' http://ceph_scheduler_host:8889

You can ssh to a Mesos slave running a ceph-mesos task and execute docker commands.

#you'll probably see a osd0 container running
docker ps -a 
docker exec osd0 ceph -s

Now you can verify your Ceph cluster!