Hi, Not sure whether my vote matters but I'd also like to support this proposal! Lately we use more and more ARM64 servers and I believe this is the future!
Julien On 2021/11/30 09:28:27 Mark Jens wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Since recently at my daily job we evaluate using Linux ARM64 servers for > our needs. > Based on my humble experience with Linux ARM64 I agree that even JVM based > software should be tested on non-x86_64 platforms. > I agree that most of the time JVM software just works but in few weeks > since I experiment with ARM64 I've found issues in Apache Phoenix, Apache > HBase (2.x) and Apache Accumulo . > > Thank you for your work to improve Oozie to work on ARM64! > > Kind regards, > Mark > > On 2021/10/11 07:27:50 Martin Grigorov wrote: > > Dear Apache Oozie devs, > > > > Recently I've tried to build Oozie on Linux Ubuntu 20.04 ARM64 [1]. > > There were two small issues but after some debugging I was able to fix > them > > and build it successfully! > > > > As a Java application Oozie should run on any of the supported platforms > by > > JDK/JRE! > > This is true until the application uses native libraries. In Oozie's case > > the problem was an old version of snappy-java library coming as a > > transitive dependency of Apache Spark. > > The second issue was due to too new version of Python (3.9.5). It seems > > PySpark does not support it yet. > > > > Since Linux ARM64 is more and more being used on the server/cloud I'd like > > to ask Oozie devs whether you are interested adding Jenkins agent that > will > > test the commits/patches or even run periodically (e.g. nightly/weekly) to > > prevent regressions when updating dependencies and to give some confidence > > to Oozie users that they could deploy it on such platform. > > > > Disclaimer: I work for OpenLab Testing (https://docs.openlabtesting.org/ ) > > and we could donate a Linux ARM64 VM that could be used as Jenkins agent > > for long term usage! Several other Apache projects already use such VMs, > > e.g. Hadoop, Cassandra, Kafka, Mesos, ... > > Other projects use TravisCI for testing on arm64/ppc64/s390x. In case you > > prefer TravisCI then I could help with a patch adding .travis.yml to > Oozie! > > > > 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-3639 > > > > Regards, > > Martin > > >
