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Learning YARN

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Learning YARN

Overview of this book

Today enterprises generate huge volumes of data. In order to provide effective services and to make smarter and more intelligent decisions from these huge volumes of data, enterprises use big-data analytics. In recent years, Hadoop has been used for massive data storage and efficient distributed processing of data. The Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN) framework solves the design problems related to resource management faced by the Hadoop 1.x framework by providing a more scalable, efficient, flexible, and highly available resource management framework for distributed data processing. This book starts with an overview of the YARN features and explains how YARN provides a business solution for growing big data needs. You will learn to provision and manage single, as well as multi-node, Hadoop-YARN clusters in the easiest way. You will walk through the YARN administration, life cycle management, application execution, REST APIs, schedulers, security framework and so on. You will gain insights about the YARN components and features such as ResourceManager, NodeManager, ApplicationMaster, Container, Timeline Server, High Availability, Resource Localisation and so on. The book explains Hadoop-YARN commands and the configurations of components and explores topics such as High Availability, Resource Localization and Log aggregation. You will then be ready to develop your own ApplicationMaster and execute it over a Hadoop-YARN cluster. Towards the end of the book, you will learn about the security architecture and integration of YARN with big data technologies like Spark and Storm. This book promises conceptual as well as practical knowledge of resource management using YARN.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning YARN
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding application execution flow


A YARN application can be a simple shell script, MapReduce job, or any group of jobs. This section will cover YARN application submission and execution flow. To manage application execution over YARN, a client needs to define an ApplicationMaster. The client submits an application context to the ResourceManager. As per the application needs, the ResourceManager then allocates memory for an ApplicationMaster and containers for application execution.

The complete process of application execution can be broadly divided into six phases, as shown in the following figure:

Phase 1 – Application initialization and submission

In the first phase of application execution, a client will connect to the applications manager service of the ResourceManager daemon and will request the ResourceManager for a new application ID. The ResourceManager will validate the client request and if the client is an authorized user, it will send a new and unique application ID, along...