Luca,

Thank you for the detailed checks!
That's really helpful and informative, so I added some of your
findings to the cwiki.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Overview+of+Bigtop+1.5.0+Support+Matrix

Kengo Seki <[email protected]>

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 5:40 PM Luca Toscano <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 12:47 AM Kengo Seki <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > This is the vote for release 1.5.0 of Apache Bigtop.
> >
> > [x] +1, accept RC0 as the official 1.5.0 release of Apache Bigtop
>
> (Community vote)
>
> I completed my tests, the new release didn't raise any blocking issue.
> My tests were for this use case:
> - Hadoop test cluster with Hive/Oozie/Spark/Jupyter/Hue on bare metal hosts.
> - HDFS and Yarn HA setup (including journal nodes).
> - Bigtop 1.4 for Debian 9 for the majority of the nodes, and a client
> node on Debian 10.
> - In place upgrade from Bigtop 1.4 to 1.5 (upgrading the packages
> without removing the old ones first).
>
> I have tested an in place upgrade, trying to rollback/re-deploy before
> the HDFS finalize step, all good. Some interesting things that I
> noticed or had to fix in my config after the upgrade:
> - the HDFS Namenodes seem to be smarter when dealing with a rollback.
> While testing CDH -> Bigtop 1.4 (hdfs 2.6.0 -> 2.8.5) I had to follow
> the upstream guidelines and explicitly issue commands to rollback the
> hdfs state, but when testing this release it was not needed anymore.
> I'll dig a big more into this, but overall the upgrade/rollback
> procedure seemed smoother.
> - our Hadoop clusters never used the
> "yarn.resourcemanager.webapp.address.$rm-id" settings in yarn-site.xml
> (that seem to have a good default), but on Bigtop 1.5 it lead to NPE
> while running map-reduce jobs, like described in
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-8056. Once I set the value,
> everything worked as expected.
> - while upgrading the packages, I had a little hiccup with oozie since
> the version on Bigtop 1.4 is higher than 1.5 (4.3.0-3 vs 4.3.0-1), so
> it needed a downgrade. Nothing really major, just mentioning it.
>
> About https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/bigtop/bigtop-1.5.0-RC0:
> - verified .asc/.shaXXX, all good.
> - all debian packages (9 and 10 versions) worked fine, and Kengo
> Seki's gpg signature was ok as well.
>
> Thanks a lot for this release!
>
> Luca

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