Anaconda for cluster management provides resource management tools which allow users to easily create, provision and manage bare-metal or cloud-based clusters. It enables the management of conda environments on clusters and provides integration, configuration and setup management of Hadoop services. This can be installed alongside enterprise Hadoop distributions such as Cloudera CDH or Hortonworks HDP and this is used to manage conda packages and environments across a cluster.
To step through this recipe, you need Ubuntu 14.04 (Linux flavor) installed on the machine. Python comes pre-installed. python --version
gives the version of Python installed. If the version is 2.6.x, upgrade it to Python 2.7 as follows:
sudo apt-get install python2.7
For installing Anaconda, please refer to the earlier Installing Anaconda on Linux recipe.