I think you can make that work using whirr-cm with the BYON (bring your own nodes provider). Probably you will have to customise whirr-cm to work with an existing installation of Cloudera Manager.
-- Andrei Savu / axemblr.com On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Joe Travaglini <joe.travagl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > Not sure if this scope is too narrow for the whirr ml or not. > > I've come across the whirr-cm <https://github.com/cloudera/whirr-cm>library > and I'm exploring whether I can extend it, rather than implement a > client using the raw CM Java API, given the breadth features available in > whirr and it's ease of use. > > What I'm wondering is if it's possible to subclass ClusterSpec to be > used with my deployment. What I'd like to do is create a whirr properties > file like this > one<https://raw.github.com/cloudera/whirr-cm/master/cm-ec2.properties>, > but stripped of any provider/identity info and instead supply the > host/port/username/password of my CM server, plus the hostnames/IPs and > desired services/roles configuration. > > In other words, I'm hoping to leverage whirr to pass a Hadoop Cluster > topology to an installed, but not yet initialized, Cloudera Manager Server. > Unlike the Whirr cloud EC2/Rackspace paradigms, these machines are already > provisioned, and their hostnames/IPs known. > > Is this possible with whirr? I'd imagine that if it is, I'd have to > subclass one or more of the whirr classes, but I'm not sure where to begin. > > If anyone has any advice (even if it's, 'don't go there'), I would > appreciate it. > > -Joe >
