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OpenStack Sahara Essentials

By : Omar Khedher
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OpenStack Sahara Essentials

By: Omar Khedher

Overview of this book

The Sahara project is a module that aims to simplify the building of data processing capabilities on OpenStack. The goal of this book is to provide a focused, fast paced guide to installing, configuring, and getting started with integrating Hadoop with OpenStack, using Sahara. The book should explain to users how to deploy their data-intensive Hadoop and Spark clusters on top of OpenStack. It will also cover how to use the Sahara REST API, how to develop applications for Elastic Data Processing on Openstack, and setting up hadoop or spark clusters on Openstack.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary


This chapter has demonstrated how to resolve a few common issues that might occur when installing and configuring Sahara in OpenStack. This makes it imperative to understand how things in OpenStack work under the hood. Troubleshooting Sahara in OpenStack depends on the state of other services such as compute, storage, network, image, identity, and the orchestration service. Thus, it is essential to keep an eye on logs for different components of OpenStack when operating on Sahara. Keep using command-line tools provided by OpenStack to check quickly the activity of its Sahara service. It is also fruitful to track logs and trace error messages using an easy tool such as Logstash and Kibana in a production environment.

By tackling this troubleshooting chapter, our Sahara journey in OpenStack comes to an end. Keep in mind that this book has been written based on the last updates of the Sahara project in OpenStack up to the Liberty release. Its trend to move quickly and achieve fast growth...