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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

Running and monitoring MRv1 apps on YARN


The syntax to submit applications is similar to the MRv1 framework. A minor difference in MRv2 is the use of the yarn command in the Hadoop-YARN bin folder rather than hadoop. Although submission of applications is supported using the hadoop command in MRv2, the yarn command is still preferred.

YARN uses the ResourceManager web interface for monitoring applications running on a YARN cluster. The ResourceManager UI shows the basic cluster metrics, list of applications, and nodes associated with the cluster. In this section, we'll discuss the monitoring of MRv1 applications over YARN.

You can execute a sample MapReduce job like word count and browse to the web UI for ResourceManager at http://<ResourceManagerHost>:8088/.

A new application is submitted to the YARN cluster and you can view the application summary in the application table. You can open the application details page by clicking on the link for the corresponding row in the table.

The application...