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Ambari supports the concept of Stacks and associated Services in a Stack Definition. By leveraging the Stack Definition, Ambari has a consistent and defined interface to install, manage and monitor a set of Services and provides extensibility model for new Stacks + Services to be introduced.

From Ambari 2.4, there is also support for the concept of Extensions and its associated custom Services in an Extension Definition

Terminology

TermDescription
StackDefines a set of Services and where to obtain the software packages for those Services. A Stack can have one or more versionversions, and each version can be active/inactive. For example, Stack = "HDP-1.3.3".
Extension Defines a set of custom Services which can be added to a stack version.  An Extension can have one or more versions.
Service Defines the Components (MASTER, SLAVE, CLIENT) that make up the Service. For example, Service = "HDFS"
ComponentDefines and The individual Components that adhere to a certain defined lifecycle (start, stop, install, etc). For example, Service = "HDFS" has Components = "NameNode (MASTER)", "Secondary NameNode (MASTER)", "DataNode (SLAVE)" and "HDFS Client (CLIENT)"

 

Learn More

In Ambari 1.4.x or earlier, refer to Overview (Ambari 1.4.x or earlier) for more information

 In Ambari 1.5.0 or later, refer to Overview (Ambari 1.5.0 or later) for more information