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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


A successful Hadoop cluster design comes from its availability when one or many of its nodes fails for any reason. It becomes essential to ensure a high available Hadoop cluster before moving to production. By virtue of its simplicity, Sahara facilitates an HA Hadoop setup with minimum manual configuration. The chapter has introduced how to launch a high available Hadoop cluster based on few requirements settings. Although the current version supports HA on HDFS only for the HDP and CDH plugins, the Sahara project keeps growing and covering more advanced features for other plugins. By the end of this chapter, most of the advanced functionalities provided by Sahara have been covered. On the other hand, within every OpenStack release, more bugs are being fixed and many new features are being improved.