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jay vyas commented on BIGTOP-1072:
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thanks [~plinnell] .
To simplify this JIRA, ive split the docker idea (which is a good one !) into
another JIRA:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1154
> Vagrant scripts for spinning up and "hydrating" bigtop vms
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> Key: BIGTOP-1072
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BIGTOP-1072
> Project: Bigtop
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: jay vyas
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: BIGTOP-1072.1.patch
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> Vagrant is a tool that spins up VMs for you and destroys them. The only real
> requirement it has is that a "base box" has been created before hand.
> At that point, you can install the VM using different provider hosts
> (kvm,virtualbox,etc...).
> The goal of vagrant is to unify VM environments for developers with
> production env. This is very similar to what bigtop aims at providing.
> Vagrant adds host/guest shared directories, static ips, and allthe other
> goodies that one has to configure manually, into vm provisioning in a vendor
> neutral fashion: Essentially giving a declarative API to VM creation.
> I would like to suggest that bigtop provides / maintains vagrant startup
> scripts that layer hadoop tools on top of a "base box" vm. This is slightly
> different than the current strategy which creates a full blown VM with hadoop
> on it. The vagrant approach provides a means for more developer
> customization of the vm artifacts being used without adding any real overhead
> (other than having vagrant installed and understanding the very simply
> vagrant recipe for creating a vm).
> Probably in the begining this could be complimentary to the boxgrinder
> created VMs, and over time, maybe people would migrated to using the vagrant
> provisioned VMs as they become more popular and use of vagrant gets more
> common in the community.
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