Hi! this has come up a few times. E.g.: http://markmail.org/message/naz5gpst264cgkcu but today it bit me again -- relying on ssh in the cloud is super inconvenient and presents a major usability issue. On top of which, in my case I was using Ambari for managing HAWQ which means the ssh'ing is also redundant since Ambari is perfectly capable of running scripts where they belong.
So here's my question: how do we want to address it so that new comers to HAWQ have a better time working with it? Note, I'm not asking for a pony here, just the kind of usability experience I expect from any Hadoop ecosystem project (HAWQ is the only one relying on ssh for non-dev environments). As Cos mentioned in this thread -- this is definitely a prerequisite for Bigtop packaging. Thanks, Roman.
