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.Hadoop on CentOS 6 with Puppet
Create a BigTop Hadoop VM cluster: hadoop cluster reproducible, easily destroyed/recreated, configurable hadoop sandbox cluster with vagrant
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