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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

Handling resource localization in YARN


Resource is anything that is required by the container to execute the assigned task. Since the containers are running and managed by NodeManager on different nodes, it is the responsibility of NodeManager to make the required resources available on every node. YARN facilitates this feature of NodeManager by providing ResourceLocalizationService. This service is responsible for downloading the application resource locally to the NodeManager node's filesystem and to make it available to containers running for that application.

Resource localization terminologies

In this section, we'll discuss a few terminologies related to resource localization in YARN. In order to configure and use resource localization, it is important to understand the following concepts:

  • LocalResource: It is defined as a resource required by the container for the execution of the application. NodeManager is responsible for making the resources available to the local filesystem before...