On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Drew Farris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> >>> I wonder if the CDH2 ami's could be used as a starting point? Not sure >>> if you're allowed to unbundle and modify public AMI's. It would >>> certainly be more difficult to start from scratch. >> >> I'd prefer to be dependent on the official Apache distro that we use. >> > > Do you mean the distro of Hadoop, or something else? From what I > understand the convenience that CDH2 provides is largely based on the > launch/management scripts, I agree that it would make sense to replace > the actual hadoop distro with something that we use.
I just want the exact version that is in our MavenPOM. > > It is pretty simple to create AMI's from scratch, but I was wondering > about getting things set up to auto-launch the various parts of hadoop > at boot time and get the configuration right so that they are bound > into a single cluster etc. If those sorts of things are trivial or > otherwise covered, no need to start from CDH2. Yes, I'd like that too.
