This is bootstrap action script for Amazon EMR helping installing Apache Zeppelin to work with Apache Spark. Works fine with [EMR Release label:emr-4.0.0 Hadoop distribution:Amazon 2.6.0 Applications:Hive 1.0.0, Spark 1.4.1]

zeppelin-emr-bootstrap-action.sh

#!/bin/bash
#Zeppelin installation on Spark EMR cluster

sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install -y git
# Installing maven: https://gist.github.com/sebsto/19b99f1fa1f32cae5d00
sudo wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-apache-maven.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo
sudo sed -i s/\$releasever/6/g /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo
sudo yum install -y apache-maven

# Installing npm: http://stackoverflow.com/a/27350635/792313
sudo yum install -y nodejs npm --enablerepo=epel

# Building Zeppelin
git clone https://github.com/apache/incubator-zeppelin.git /home/hadoop/zeppelin
cd /home/hadoop/zeppelin
mvn clean package -Pspark-1.4 -Dhadoop.version=2.6.0 -Phadoop-2.6 -Pyarn -DskipTests


cp conf/zeppelin-env.sh.template conf/zeppelin-env.sh
chmod +x conf/zeppelin-env.sh
cat <<EOF >> conf/zeppelin-env.sh
export MASTER=yarn-client
export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/etc/hadoop/conf
EOF

# Start the Zeppelin daemon
bin/zeppelin-daemon.sh start