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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/docker

See bigtop-deploy/provisioner, and go into the README files underneath vagrant -puppet-vm or vagrant-puppet- docker. 

Use the BigPetStore application to smoke test or demonstrate a hadoop deployment

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Add a package for my new hadoop ecosystem tool "XYZ" to bigtop.

This takes experience and understanding of RPM / deb packaging.   Sean Macrory is a commiter for bigtop and can help get started down this road.  Best place to start is to ping the mailing list.  For introductions to bigtop packaging you can also read some of the posts at https://blogs.apache.org/bigtop/ See Bigtop Packaging .

Learn about Apache Hadoop using BigTop

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