As part of completion of BIGTOP-996, we have created a list of HOW-TOs for bigtop, which will be maintained over time. Please notify and open a JIRA if any of these become obsolete.
Create a Bare Metal Hadoop Cluster from the latest bigtop repositories
Follow the directions on How to install Hadoop distribution from Bigtop 0.6.0 For now, until we update to 0.7.0/0.8.0 instructions.
Create a BigTop Hadoop VM cluster: hadoop cluster reproducible, easily destroyed/recreated, configurable hadoop sandbox cluster with vagrant
See bigtop-deploy/, and go into the README files underneath vagrant.
Create a BigTop Hadoop VM : Static one node hadoop cluster by loading a VM directly
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See bigtop-bigpetstore, and follow the README file.
Run the smoke tests + API tests for Apache BigTop's hadoop distribution on HDFS
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which aims to improve these.
Run BigTop Ecosystem interoperability smoke tests (proper subset of the full bigtop smoke tests).
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