Ubuntu Server + Hadoop and Bigdata

Registered by James Page

Apache Hadoop has gained widespread adoption; the various flavours of Hadoop appear to be consolidating and Cloudera have transferred a number of their Hadoop related projects to Apache including Bigtop (the Cloudera packaging for Redhat, Debian and SuSE).

Packaging Hadoop for Ubuntu would help support developing a set of rock solid Juju charms for Hadoop by providing a well integrated version of the packaging for Ubuntu.

Collaboration with Apache Bigtop would also potentially help support packaging the wider family of Hadoop related projects.

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Antonio Rosales
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Ubuntu Server
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
James Page
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for precise
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
milestone icon ubuntu-12.04-beta-1
Started by
Robbie Williamson
Completed by
James Page

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Status Update:

This spec has been superceeded by https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-p-hdp-hadoop; packaging hadoop from source will not be targetted for this release - a broader range of hadoop packages will be made avaliable in PPA/Partner.

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Summary of objectives for Precise:

1) Ubuntu will target packaging Apache Hadoop
- Help drive support for running under OpenJDK
- Packaging will retain flavour of most popular upstream packaging
- Focus will be on most recent stable (0.20.203.0)- validate with upstream release schedule
- Thrift support will not be included
- LZO and snappy compression options will be investigated
- universe target this release.

2) Juju Charms will by default align to distro packaging for precise

Full sessions notes from UDS-P: http://pad.ubuntu.com/uds-p-servercloud-p-hadoop

Work items precise-alpha-1:
[mark-mims] Hadoop community input (what about no thrift? etc): DONE
[mark-mims] Attend HadoopWorld: DONE
[james-page] Check on release schedule for Apache Hadoop between now and Feature Freeze: DONE
[james-page] Investigate upstream co-operation from Hortonworks/Cloudera to ensure ongoing collaboration going forward: DONE

Work items precise-beta-1:
[negronjl] adjust hadoop charms to have a configurable backend hadoop, get one into the charm repository: DONE
[james-page] Package KFS for Ubuntu: POSTPONED
[james-page] Package Apache ftp-server for Ubuntu: POSTPONED
[james-page] Package Hadoop for Ubuntu: POSTPONED

Work Items:
[james-page] Active backport packaging post 12.04 release: POSTPONED
[james-page] Feed back all work to Debian: POSTPONED

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Work Items

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* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.