Akka Management

Marathon API

Marathon currently ignores all fields apart from service name. This is expected to change.

If you’re a Mesos or DC/OS user, you can use the provided Marathon API implementation. You’ll need to add a label to your Marathon JSON (named ACTOR_SYSTEM_NAME by default) and set the value equal to the name of the configured effective name, which defaults to your applications actor system name.

You’ll also have to add a named port, by default akkamgmthttp, and ensure that Akka Management’s HTTP interface is bound to this port.

Project Info

Dependencies and usage

This is a separate JAR file:

sbt

val AkkaManagementVersion = "1.0.10"
libraryDependencies += "com.lightbend.akka.discovery" %% "akka-discovery-marathon-api" % AkkaManagementVersion

Gradle

def versions = [
  AkkaManagementVersion: "1.0.10",
  ScalaBinary: "2.12"
]
dependencies {
  implementation "com.lightbend.akka.discovery:akka-discovery-marathon-api_${versions.ScalaBinary}:${versions.AkkaManagementVersion}"
}

Maven

<properties>
  <akka.management.version>1.0.10</akka.management.version>
  <scala.binary.version>2.12</scala.binary.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.lightbend.akka.discovery</groupId>
    <artifactId>akka-discovery-marathon-api_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
    <version>${akka.management.version}</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

akka-discovery-marathon-api can be used with Akka 2.5.31 or 2.6.9 or later. You have to override the following Akka dependencies by defining them explicitly in your build and define the Akka version to the one that you are using. Latest patch version of Akka is recommended and a later version than 2.6.9 can be used.

sbt

val AkkaVersion = "2.6.9"
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-cluster" % AkkaVersion,
  "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-discovery" % AkkaVersion
)

Gradle

def versions = [
  AkkaVersion: "2.6.9",
  ScalaBinary: "2.12"
]
dependencies {
  implementation "com.typesafe.akka:akka-cluster_${versions.ScalaBinary}:${versions.AkkaVersion}"
  implementation "com.typesafe.akka:akka-discovery_${versions.ScalaBinary}:${versions.AkkaVersion}"
}

Maven

<properties>
  <akka.version>2.6.9</akka.version>
  <scala.binary.version>2.12</scala.binary.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.typesafe.akka</groupId>
    <artifactId>akka-cluster_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
    <version>${akka.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.typesafe.akka</groupId>
    <artifactId>akka-discovery_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
    <version>${akka.version}</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

And in your application.conf:

akka.discovery {
  method = marathon-api
}

And in your marathon.json:

{
   ...
   "cmd": "path-to-your-app -Dakka.remote.netty.tcp.hostname=$HOST -Dakka.remote.netty.tcp.port=$PORT_AKKAREMOTE -Dakka.management.http.hostname=$HOST -Dakka.management.http.port=$PORT_AKKAMGMTHTTP",

   "labels": {
     "ACTOR_SYSTEM_NAME": "my-system"
   },

   "portDefinitions": [
     { "port": 0, "name": "akkaremote" },
     { "port": 0, "name": "akkamgmthttp" }
   ]
   ...
}