[MESOS-2830] Add an endpoint to slaves to allow launching system administration tasks

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: agent
• Labels: mesosphere
• Target Version/s: 0.24.0
• Sprint: Mesosphere Sprint 15
• Story Points: 8
• Assignee: Marco Massenzio
• Reporter: Cody Maloney
• Shepherd: Benjamin Hindman
• Created: 08/Jun/15 19:10
• Updated: 26/Nov/18 12:32
• Resolved: 26/Nov/18 12:32

Description

As a System Administrator often times I need to run a organization-mandated task on every machine in the cluster. Ideally I could do this within the framework of mesos resources if it is a "cleanup" or auditing task, but sometimes I just have to run something, and run it now, regardless if a machine has un-accounted resources (Ex: Adding/removing a user).

Currently to do this I have to completely bypass Mesos and SSH to the box. Ideally I could tell a mesos slave (With proper authentication) to run a container with the limited special permissions needed to get the task done.