Deploying multinode Hadoop 2.0 cluster using Apache Ambari

To actually create the servers, I will use a slightly modified version of bulk servers create script. I will create one server for Apache Ambari and a number of servers for Apache Hadoop Cluster and I will then use Ambari to install the Hadoop onto the Hadoop cluster servers.

So basically, I have created the following servers:

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myhadoop-Ambari
myhadoop1
myhadoop2
myhadoop3
myhadoop4
myhadoop5
and have recorded their hostnames, public/private ip addresses and root passwords for each.

2. Prepare the servers.

SSH into the newly created Ambari server eg. myhadoop-Ambari. Update its /etc/hosts file with the entry for each server above.

Also create a hosts.txt file with the hostnames of the servers from above.

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root@myhadoop-Ambari$ cat hosts.txt
myhadoop1
myhadoop2
myhadoop3
myhadoop4
myhadoop5
At this point, from the same Ambari server, run the following script which will ssh into all of the servers specified in the hosts.txt file and set them up.

Specifically, the script will set up passwordless SSH between the servers and also disable iptables among other things.

prepare-cluster.sh

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#!/bin/bash
 
set -x
 
# Generate SSH keys
ssh-keygen -t rsa
cd ~/.ssh
cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys
 
cd ~
# Distribute SSH keys
for host in `cat hosts.txt`; do
    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@$host "mkdir -p ~/.ssh; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"
    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa | ssh root@$host "cat > ~/.ssh/id_rsa; chmod 400 ~/.ssh/id_rsa"
    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@$host "cat > ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"
done
 
# Distribute hosts file
for host in `cat hosts.txt`; do
    scp /etc/hosts root@$host:/etc/hosts
done
 
# Prepare other basic things
for host in `cat hosts.txt`; do
    ssh root@$host "sed -i s/SELINUX=enforcing/SELINUX=disabled/g /etc/selinux/config"
    ssh root@$host "chkconfig iptables off"
    ssh root@$host "/etc/init.d/iptables stop"
    echo "enabled=0" | ssh root@$host "cat > /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/refresh-packagekit.conf"
done
Note, this step will ask for root password for each of the servers before setting them for passwordless access.

3 Install Ambari.

While still on the Ambari server, run the following script that will install Apache Ambari.

install-ambari-server.sh

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#!/bin/bash
 
set -x
 
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
    echo "This script must be run as root"
    exit 1
fi
 
# Install Ambari server
cd ~
wget http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/ambari/centos6/1.x/GA/ambari.repo
cp ambari.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
yum install -y epel-release
yum repolist
yum install -y ambari-server
 
# Setup Ambari server
ambari-server setup -s
 
# Start Ambari server
ambari-server start
 
ps -ef | grep Ambari
Once the installation completes, you should be able to login to the ip address of the Ambari servers on the browser and access its web interface.

http://myhadoop-Ambari:8080

admin/admin is the default username and password.

4. Install Hadoop.

Once logged into the Ambari web portal, it is pretty intuitive to create a Hadoop Cluster through its wizard.

It will ask for hostnames and SSH Private Key, which you can get from the Ambari Server.

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root@myhadoop-Ambari$ cat hosts.txt
root@myhadoop-Ambari$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa
You should be able to just follow the wizard and complete the Hadoop 2.0 Installation at this point. The process the install Hadoop 1.* is almost exactly the same although some of the services like YARN don’t exist.

Apache Ambari will let you install a plethora of services including HDFS, YARN, MapReduce2, HBase, HIVE, Oozie, Ganglia, Nagios, ZooKeeper and Hive and Pig clients. As you go through the installation wizard, you can choose what service goes on which server.

5. Validate Hadoop:

SSH to myhadoop1 and run the script to do a wordcount on all books of Shakespeare.

wordcount2.sh

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#!/bin/bash
 
set -x
 
su hdfs - -c "hadoop fs -rmdir /shakespeare"
cd /tmp
wget http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~leonov/shakespeare.tar.bz2
tar xjvf shakespeare.tar.bz2
now=`date +"%y%m%d-%H%M"`
su hdfs - -c "hadoop fs -mkdir -p /shakespeare"
su hdfs - -c "hadoop fs -mkdir -p /shakespeare/$now"
su hdfs - -c "hadoop fs -put /tmp/Shakespeare /shakespeare/$now/input"
su hdfs - -c "hadoop jar /usr/lib/hadoop-mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-2.2.0.2.0.6.0-76.jar wordcount /shakespeare/$now/input /shakespeare/$now/output"
su hdfs - -c "hadoop fs -cat /shakespeare/$now/output/part-r-* | sort -nk2"
So you have your first Hadoop 2.0 cluster running and validated. Feed free to look into the scripts, its mostly instructions from