On Jan 10, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > If you aren't going to use EMR, possibly because of hadoop version issues, > then I strongly second the recommendation of the alestic instances. >
Right, I want to run trunk. > All of these include a start script that is downloaded from what is called a > "user-data file". This can be up to 16K in length. I used that script to > customize my instances with additional loftware like hadoop, java, our own > software as well as reconfiguring the instance as necessary, mounting > elastic block volumes and tweaking the DHCP configuration to add an > over-ride to avoid a few gotchas. Total boot time was still typically < 40 > s and I hear that it has gotten faster since then. Can you share the script, obviously removing the part for your prop. software? -Grant
