Apache Ambari

Summary

Apache Ambari is a cluster management framework and UI for Apache Hadoop.

Owner

Name: Peter MacKinnon
Email: pmackinn@redhat.com
Release notes owner: Simon Clark (sclark)

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 21
Last updated: 7 April 2014
Tracker bug: #1089197

Detailed Description

The Apache Ambari project is aimed at making Hadoop management simpler by developing software for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Apache Hadoop clusters. Ambari provides an intuitive, easy-to-use Hadoop management web UI backed by its RESTful APIs.

Benefit to Fedora

Apache Ambari packaging is an initial step towards providing provisioning and management for the emerging Hadoop stack developed for Fedora.

Scope

Proposal owners: The Ambari package has not yet been accepted into Fedora. There is an outstanding FPC request for a temporary bundling exception for Javascript libraries distributed by upstream.
Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Release engineering: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

An upstream quickstart guide is available here which describes setup.

User Experience

Users should be able to use the Ambari server to configure, install, and deploy HDP Hadoop stacks on Centos/RHEL/SLES/OLE from Hortonworks repos.

Dependencies

N/A with respect to Fedora Hadoop ecosystem (native agent support is disabled)

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks product? N/A

Documentation