Hello! (Evans Ye, Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 04:17:27PM +0000:) > Cool. I’m really happy to see people leveraging community works to build up > its software stack. It seems that you are using a bigtop packages only. > Any reason you didn’t choose provisioner and puppet? Your feedback can help > us polish the feature further.
Well, ElastiCluster was born to create HPC/batch-queuing clusters, and for that we had already an existing infrastructure built around Ansible and Python. I found it simpler to just re-use the packages and the tweak the example configs, than to provide another layer of glue to run Puppet and the Bigtop Provisioner. (Somebody more versed in Ruby and Puppet might have made a different choice.) Again, thanks for the excellent packaging, the testing, and the repos! Already that part alone, even without the provisioner, is a terrific help to set up a working Hadoop/Spark environment. > BTW, although we welcome any bigtop related stuffs to be posted here. Using > the announce tag is not appropriate. People May misunderstand that the > message is sent by Bigtop PMC. Sorry fot that! I was looking for a way to tag the message as "news" but I agree that the choice of the "[announce]" tag was misguided. My apologies. Kind regards, Riccardo -- Riccardo Murri S3IT: Services and Support for Science IT University of Zurich
