Hmm, I was not even aware of this provider. Color me excited. I'll take a look but if anyone else has added tricks of the trade, please do share!
Thank you Andrei! On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Andrei Savu <savu.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >
