Quick Intro. slide
Here's a 17 pages slide to quickly go through the idea of the BigTop VM and Docker provisioner.
Getting Started
Clone the BigTop source code
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/bigtop.git
To create a VM based BigTop Distro. Hadoop cluster:
$ cd bigtop/bigtop-deploy/vm/vagrant-puppet-vm
$ vagrant up
DONE!
To create a Docker based BigTop Distro. Hadoop cluster
$ cd bigtop/bigtop-deploy/vm/vagrant-puppet-docker
$ ./docker-hadoop.sh --create 3
DONE!