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$ cat puppet-hbase.properties

An external wizard/orchestrator use case

Another related perspective is if you had a wizard deployment tool that answered a few key questions to determine the characteristics of your hadoop deployment (i.e., what services are you running, the resiliency, whether secure mode, etc) you want to make it as easy as possible to build a mechanism that generate a site manifest that would then drive the Puppet automated configuration.

Issues to be resolved

Collection of modules vs. collection of classes in a single Bigtop module

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