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Quick Start Guide - Installing a cluster with Ambari (with local VMs)
This document shows how to quickly set up a cluster using Ambari on your local machine using virtual machines.
This utilizes VirtualBox and Vagrant so you will need to install both.
Note that the steps were tested on MacOS 10.8.4 / 10.8.5.
Setup
Install VirtualBox from: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Install Vagrant from: http://downloads.vagrantup.com
After you have installed VirtualBox and Vagrant on your computer, check out the “ambari-vagrant” repo on github:
git clone https://github.com/u39kun/ambari-vagrant.git
Edit your /etc/hosts on your computer so that you will be able to resolve hostnames for the VMs:
sudo -s 'cat ambari-vagrant/append-to-etc-hosts.txt >> /etc/hosts'
Copy the private key to your home directory (or some place convenient for you) so that it’s easily accessible for uploading via Ambari Web:
vagrant
The above command shows the command usage and also creates a private key as ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key. This key will be used in the following steps.
Starting VMs
First, change directory to ambari-vagrant:
cd ambari-vagrant
You will see subdirectories for different OS’s. “cd” into the OS that you want to test. centos6.4 is recommended as this is quicker to launch than other OS's.
Now you can start VMs with the following command:
cd centos6.4 cp ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key . ./up.sh <# of VMs to launch>
For example, up.sh 3 starts 3 VMs. 3 seems to be a good number with 16GB of RAM without taxing the system too much.
With the default Vagrantfile, you can specify up to 10 (if your computer can handle it; you can even add more).
VMs will have the FQDN <os-code>[01-10].ambari.apache.org, where <os-code> is c59 (CentOS 5.9), c64 (CentOS 6.4), etc.
E.g., c5901.ambari.apache.org, c6401.ambari.apache.org, etc.
VMs will have the IP address 192.168.<os-subnet>.1[01-10], where <os-subnet> is 59 for CentOS 5.9, 64 for CentOS 6.4, etc.
E.g., 192.168.59.101, 192.168.64.101, etc.
Note that up.sh 3 command is equivalent to doing something like: vagrant up c640{1..3}
Testing Ambari
If it is your first time running a vagrant command, run:
vagrant init
Log into the VM:
vagrant ssh c6401
Note that this logs you in as user vagrant. Once you are logged in, you can run:
sudo su -
to make yourself root. Download the repository file so that ambari-server can be installed:
# CentOS 6 # # to test public release 2.1.1 wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/ambari.repo http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/ambari/centos6/2.x/updates/2.1.1/ambari.repo yum install ambari-server -y # OR # to test the branch-2.1 build - updated on every commit to branch-2.1 wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/ambari.repo http://s3.amazonaws.com/dev.hortonworks.com/ambari/centos6/2.x/latest/2.1.0/ambaribn.repo yum install ambari-server -y OR # to test the trunk build - updated on every commit to trunk wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/ambari.repo http://s3.amazonaws.com/dev.hortonworks.com/ambari/centos6/2.x/latest/trunk/ambaribn.repo yum install ambari-server -y # Ubuntu 12 # to test public release 2.0.2 wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ambari.list http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/ambari/ubuntu12/2.x/updates/2.0.2/ambari.list OR # to test the branch-2.1 build - updated on every commit to branch-2.1 wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ambari.list http://dev.hortonworks.com.s3.amazonaws.com/ambari/ubuntu12/2.x/latest/2.1.0/ambaribn.list OR # to test the trunk build - updated on every commit to trunk wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ambari.list http://s3.amazonaws.com/dev.hortonworks.com/ambari/ubuntu12/2.x/latest/trunk/ambaribn.list apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com B9733A7A07513CAD apt-get update apt-get install ambari-server -y
Ambari offers many installation options (see Ambari User Guides), but to get up and running quickly with default settings, you can run the following to set up and start ambari-server.
ambari-server setup -s ambari-server start
For frontend developers only: see Frontend Development section below for extra setup instructions.
Once Ambari Server is started, hit http://c6401.ambari.apache.org:8080 (URL depends on the OS being tested) from your browser on your local computer.
Note that Ambari Server can take some time to fully come up and ready to accept connections. Keep hitting the URL until you get the login page.
Once you are at the login page, login with the default username admin and password admin.
On the Install Options page, use the FQDNs of the VMs. For example:
c6401.ambari.apache.org c6402.ambari.apache.org c6403.ambari.apache.org
Alternatively, you can use a range expression:
c64[01-03].ambari.apache.org
Specify the the non-root SSH user vagrant, and upload insecure_private_key file that you copied earlier as the private key.
Follow the onscreen instructions to install your cluster.
When done testing, run vagrant destroy -f to purge the VMs.
Basic VM Operations
vagrant up <vm name>
Starts a specific VM. up.sh is a wrapper for this call.
Note: if you don’t specify the <vm name> parameter, it will try to start 10 VMs
You can run this if you want to start more VMs after you already called up.sh
For example: vagrant up c6406
vagrant destroy -f
Destroys all VMs launched from the current directory (deletes them from disk as well)
You can optionally specify a specific VM to destroy
vagrant suspend
Suspends (snapshot) all VMs launched from the current directory so that you can resume them later
You can optionally specify a specific VM to suspend
vagrant resume
Resumes all suspended VMs launched from the current directory
You can optionally specify a specific VM to resume
vagrant ssh host
Starts a SSH session to the host. For example: vagrant ssh c6401
vagrant status
Shows which VMs are running, suspended, etc.
Modifying RAM for the VMs
Each VM is allocated 2GB of RAM. These can be changed by editing Vagrantfile. To change the RAM allocation, modify the following line:
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 2048]
Taking Snapshots
Vagrant makes it easy to take snapshots of the entire cluster.
First, install the snapshot plugin:
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbox-snapshot --plugin-version=0.0.2
This enables the “vagrant snapshot” command. Note that the above installs vesion 0.0.2. if you install the latest plugin version 0.0.3 does not allow taking snapshots of the whole cluster at the same time (you have to specify a VM name).
Run vagrant snapshot to see the syntax.
Note that the plugin tries to take a snapshot of all VMs configured in Vagrantfile. If you are always using 3 VMs, for example, you can comment out c64[04-10] in Vagrantfile so that the snapshot commands only operate on c64[01-03].
Note: Upon resuming a snapshot, you may find that time-sensitive services may be down (e.g, HBase RegionServer is down, etc.)
Tip: After starting the VMs but before you do anything on the VMs, run "vagrant snapshot take init". This way, you can go back to the initial state of the VMs by running "vagrant snapshot go init"; this only takes seconds (much faster than starting the VMs up from scratch by using up.sh or "vagrant up"). Another advantage of this is that you can always go back to the initial state without destroying other named snapshots that you created.
Misc
All VMs launched will have a directory called /vagrant inside the VM. This maps to the ambari-vagrant/<os> directory on your local computer. You can use this shared directory mapping to push files, etc.
If you want to test OS’s other than what’s currently in the ambari-vagrant repo, please see http://www.vagrantbox.es/ for all the readily available OS images you can test. Note that Ambari currently works on RHEL 5/6, CentOS 5/6, Oracle Linux 5/6, SUSE 11, and SLES 11. Ubuntu support is work in progress.
Pre-Configured Development Environment
Simply edit Vagrantfile to launch a VM with all the tools necessary to build Ambari from source.
cd ambari-vagrant/centos6.4 vi Vagrantfile <- uncomment the line with "dev-bootstrap.sh" vagrant up c6401
To build from source, follow the instructions in Ambari Development.
Frontend Development
You can use this set up to develop and test out Ambari Web frontend code against a real Ambari Server on a multi-node environment.
On the host machine:
cd ambari-vagrant/centos6.4 git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ambari.git ambari cd ambari/ambari-web npm install brunch w
On c6401 (where Ambari Server is installed):
cd /usr/lib/ambari-server mv web web-orig ln -s /vagrant/ambari/ambari-web/public web ambari-server restart
With this setup, whenever you change the content of ambari-web files (under ambari-vagrant/ambari/) on the host machine, brunch will pick up changes in the background and update ambari-vagrant/ambari/ambari-web/public. Because of the symbolic link, the changes are automatically picked up by Ambari Server. All you have to do is hit refresh on the browser to see the frontend code changes reflected.
Not seeing code changes as expected? If you have run the maven command to build Ambari previously, you will see files called app.js.gz and vendor.js.gz under the public folder. You need to delete these files for the frontend code changes to be effective, as the app.js.gz and vendor.js.gz files take precedence over app.js and vendor.js, respectively.