Mesos includes a set of scripts in MESOS_HOME/deploy that can be used to deploy it on a cluster. To use these scripts, you need to create two configuration files: MESOS_HOME/conf/masters, which should list the hostname(s) of the node(s) you want to be your masters (one per line), and MESOS_HOME/conf/slaves, which should contain a list of hostnames for your slaves. You can then start a cluster with deploy/start-mesos and stop it with deploy/stop-mesos.
It is also possible to set environment variables, ulimits, etc that will affect the master and slave. by editing MESOS_HOME/deploy/mesos-env.sh. One particularly useful setting is LIBPROCESS_IP, which tells the master and slave binaries which IP address to bind to; in some installations, the default interface that the hostname resolves to is not the machine's external IP address, so you can set the right IP through this variable.
Finally, the deploy scripts do not use ZooKeeper by default. If you want to use ZooKeeper (for multiple masters), you can do so by either editing deploy/mesos-env.sh to set MESOS_URL to a zoo:// or zoofile:// URL, or by editing conf/mesos.conf to set the url configuration parameter. Please see the “High Availability” documentation for details.
mesos-slave binary). Otherwise, they will fail to setuid.