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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


Provisioning a Hadoop cluster using Sahara in OpenStack is not a complex task anymore. Sahara is very rich in terms of plugins and versioning. Although the chapter has covered only the Hadoop Vanilla plugin, it might be possible to run other types of clusters by going through the same steps using a different plugin of your choice. The beauty of Sahara is the simplicity of the workflow of a complete Hadoop cluster up and running using Horizon or via the CLI. After creating and launching your first Hadoop cluster, it is time to discover the other side of Sahara: running jobs, which will be the topic of the next chapter.