Ambari in F20 and rawhide

[Peter MacKinnon]

Greetings,

http://ambari.apache.org/

Apache Ambari 1.5.1 (latest release) is available in F20 and rawhide. It 
is a Hadoop cluster management project with a centralized server, web 
console and agent framework. The project originated from Hortonworks and 
to-date features stack definitions and bits from their repos, the latest 
being HDP 2.1.  Supported agent OS include the RHEL/CentOS family (6 and 
5). These agents can be installed manually and self-register, or be 
provisioned to an "empty" node by the server via scp and bootstrap 
Python scripts.

Interoperability between the Fedora Ambari server and Hortonworks Ambari 
agents from RHEL6 and CentOS6 appear to work correctly for the manual 
registration use case. The server provisioning use case needs some more 
work and likely patches upstream due to some lingering inflexibility 
with their software requirements. Currently, they enforce a strict 
version alignment of the agents to server sprinkled in various pockets 
of their configuration and Python code base.

The Fedora agent is packaged but has unresolved interop issues when 
deploying even a basic stack of HDFS and Zookeeper. Beyond these agent 
issues, there will be other technical considerations which may lead me 
to attempt to define and implement a Fedora stack obviously based on our 
expanding set of Big Data packaged components. Stay tuned but in the 
meantime feel free to tinker if you like (and raise BZ) as I iterate on 
the 1.5.x package some more.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=18392

\Pete