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@Others, Please join us in slack if you interested to work on ambari. Slack Channel : bringbackambari On 03/06/22, 5:29 PM, "Martin Blom" <[email protected]> wrote Definitely interested in this effort! -- Martin Blom [email protected] > 1 juni 2022 kl. 08:51 skrev 吴治国 <[email protected]>: > > Hi everyone, > > I find that most people still rely on Ambari, including myself. > Therefore, my team is planning to bring Ambari back to incubator, and we have connected with some IPMCs who are willing to help. > Currently, we are preparing the proposal, and we believe that we can start voting about this in the Apache Incubator community in the near future. > Even if the proposal is rejected, we will still create a fork version on github and keep it running. > If you are also interested in this, or want to be part of this, please contact me, thanks! > > Best Regards, > Zhiguo Wu > > On 2022/05/19 06:41:57 Yuqi Gu wrote: >> 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://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.apache.org%2Fthread%2Fwj898zq8q348721xf460mttqlty4v3zw&data=05%7C01%7Cbbattula%40visa.com%7Cdd8dbee3ae6a48e8958708da45587a99%7C38305e12e15d4ee888b9c4db1c477d76%7C0%7C0%7C637898543561530060%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=RS0IrnxpCayErKGP5zgXZJqbxo8bXdDZz1lLm%2B%2Bbv64%3D&reserved=0 >>> >>> 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] >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>
