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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


In this chapter, you explored the factors behind the success of the emerging technology of data processing and analysis using cloud computing technology. You learned how OpenStack can be a great opportunity to offer the needed scalable and elastic big data on-demand infrastructure. It can be also useful to execute on-demand Elastic Data Processing tasks.

The first chapter exposed the new OpenStack incubated project called Sahara: a rapid, auto-deploy, and scalable solution for Hadoop and Spark clusters. An overall view of the Sahara architecture has been discussed for a fast-paced understanding of the platform and how it works in an OpenStack private cloud environment.

Now it is time to get things running and discover how such an amazing big data management solution can be used by installing OpenStack and integrating Sahara, which will be the topic of the next chapter.