Really happy to hear that there is still interest in Ambari from several parties! How can I help?
-- Martin Blom [email protected] > 19 maj 2022 kl. 08:41 skrev Yuqi Gu <[email protected]>: > > Bigtop adopted the Ambari stable version (2.7.5) as the cluster management > tools for the potential developers and administrators. It also provided the > bigtop-ambari-mpack(Bgtp-Mpack) to decouple stack management and definition > from Ambari's core. > Currently Bgtp-Mpack still just supports Bigtop-1.5 (Hadoop 2.x), but the > Bigtop has already supported Hadoop 3.x in Bigtop 3 release. So we plan to > start working on upgrading Bgtp-Mpack services from Bigtop-1.5 (Hadoop 2.x) > to Bigtop-3 (Hadoop-3.x). > > BRs, > Yuqi > > > > Michiel Verheul <[email protected]> 于2022年5月19日周四 03:56写道： > >> Personally I'm struggling with the exactly the same issue. There was >> already some kind of discussion on this topic here, earlier: >> >> https://lists.apache.org/thread/wj898zq8q348721xf460mttqlty4v3zw >> >> Personally I have never ran a production cluster without CM before. Bigtop >> 3 with Ambari seemed ideal, but as there was no ambari-mpack for bigtop 3 >> yet, I put some energy in porting the HDP mpack to support bigtop. >> But I can understand that maintaining such a component under the Bigtop >> project is a no-go, because of Ambari's attic state, Python 2.7 and the >> (un)maintainability of such an mpack, so I stopped working on that. >> >> From what I also understand from the above thread, 李帅 is already working on >> some light weight ambari alternative. It feels like that would be a good >> way forward but I don't know how much work has to be done to make this work >> and if it's still viable? >> >> The alternative would be running vanilla hadoop/bigtop. I don't have any >> experience with it but I guess the most important gaps for me will be: >> >> - initial installation (with support for Kerberos and SSL) >> - (rolling) service restarts >> - basic service monitoring (is a service running or down?) >> >> Maybe we just have to put some energy in creating puppet/Ansible scripts >> for this purpose and just forget about Ambari. >> >> >> Op wo 18 mei 2022 20:07 schreef Battula, Brahma Reddy >> <[email protected]>: >> >>> Supposed to ask same question @Martin Blom here. >>> IMO, still Ambari will be good choice for cluster management. I think, >>> most/some amount of people from bigtop(who are using for building the >>> packages) still use ambari. >>> >>> Planning to take collective opinion on bring back even with some other >>> name if not with same name. >>> >>> Any thoughts on this..? >>> >>> >>> On 18/05/22, 6:28 PM, "李帅" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Maintaining Ambari is not easy for its complex architecture. There >> are >>> many >>> Configuration Management Tools such as Puppet, Ansible for >>> alternatives. So >>> for me, I will try to use Puppet or Ansible to deploy and monitor >>> cluster. >>> Using Puppet and Ansible without Ambari-like web ui will be a gap for >>> common users. >>> >>> >>> >>> Martin Blom <[email protected]> 于 2022年5月18日周三 17:04写道： >>> >>>> >>>> Hi all. I'm new here. >>>> >>>> So at work we provide a service that's been running flawlessly on >>> top of >>>> HDP since at least 2014. The recent "events" (which we became aware >>> of only >>>> late last year, when it was already too late) had us panicking a >> bit >>> at >>>> first, since we realised we could no longer manage our cluster, but >>> we've >>>> since then been able to track down repo mirrors so the immediate >>> crisis is >>>> over (no thanks to Cloudera). >>>> >>>> However, with HDP dead and CentOS 7 nearing EOL, it's clear that we >>> need >>>> to move on. While we have evaluated both CDP, GCP Dataproc and even >>>> considered migrating from HBase to Bigtable, Bigtop seems like the >>> only >>>> sensible way forward. We just want a small database/MQ backend >>> cluster that >>>> keeps running forever to power our service. >>>> >>>> Which brings us to Ambari. I really liked Ambari, for cluster >>> management >>>> obviously but also so for monitoring, and it has worked great for >> us >>> all >>>> those years. A lot of work has obviously been put into Ambari and >> it >>> seems >>>> like such a waste to throw it all away. >>>> >>>> What are this Bigtop's plans for Ambari, the upstream project being >>>> retired and all? >>>> >>>> For us, we would like to bring us to the point were, in 2024 when >>> CentOS 7 >>>> goes EOL, we can bring up a new cluster on Rocky 8 with HDFS, Yarn, >>> HBase, >>>> Kafka and Zookeeper using Ambari to manage, monitor and keep it up >>> and >>>> running like that until at least 2029 when RL8 retires. It doesn't >>> seem >>>> *that* difficult given the HDP 3.1 vs Bigtop 3.0.1 BOMs for the >>> components >>>> we need. We would also be willing to put some time into making that >>>> happening. >>>> >>>> What are your thoughts on that? Is anybody here still interested in >>>> Ambari? Has anybody actually been using it to manage Bigtop >>> components? >>>> >>>> PS. Also cross-posting to user. Anybody else in my situation? What >>> are you >>>> all using to monitor your clusters once deployed? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Martin Blom >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>
