Yes you can do such things with Oozie. It is built to not be tied to a single cluster, and can be freely configured to talk to other clusters (so long as their versions are compatible with the hadoop library Oozie uses to submit jobs).
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Som Satpathy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Does oozie support execution of a workflow action on a non-native cluster? > > For example, I have oozie server running on my local machine, which is also > running hadoop. I want to run a workflow comprising of a map-reduce action > locally, but when I define the workflow.xml, I set the action's namenode > and jobtracker properties to a remote ec2 cluster. So, even if oozie spawns > a local map task for my action, the underlying map-reduce job itself gets > executed on the remote ec2 cluster. Can we do such a thing with oozie? > > Thanks, > Som -- Harsh J
