mesosdns-cli

A Node.js-based CLI for querying Mesos DNS service names

Installation

This package can be installed globally via npm install -g mesosdns-cli.

Usage

Command line arguments

Mandatory arguments

--serviceName <service name> : The Mesos DNS service name to be queried
--servers <comma separated ip addresses> : The Mesos DNS server ip address(es)

Other arguments

--all : If provided, all endpoints will be returned in a concatenated manner. Standard separator is a comma, but can be specified by using --separator <separator>
--separator <separator> : The separator which should be used if the --all option is provided
--portIndex <port index number> : The port index of the service name that should be queried
--strategy <strategy name> : The strategy how to choose from the list of results (either 'weighted' or  'random')

Running

If your Mesos DNS server resides on 192.168.0.1, and you want to to resolve the service name web.marathon.mesos, then you can use

$ mesosdns-cli --serviceName web.marathon.mesos --servers 192.168.0.1

to receive a {host}:{port} endpoint, such as 192.168.0.2:8080.