Re: spark ec2 as non-root / any plan to improve that in the future ?

2015-07-10 Thread Mathieu D
Quick and clear answer thank you. 2015-07-09 21:07 GMT+02:00 Nicholas Chammas nicholas.cham...@gmail.com: No plans to change that at the moment, but agreed it is against accepted convention. It would be a lot of work to change the tool, change the AMIs, and test everything. My suggestion is

Re: spark ec2 as non-root / any plan to improve that in the future ?

2015-07-09 Thread Nicholas Chammas
No plans to change that at the moment, but agreed it is against accepted convention. It would be a lot of work to change the tool, change the AMIs, and test everything. My suggestion is not to hold your breath for such a change. spark-ec2, as far as I understand, is not intended for spinning up

spark ec2 as non-root / any plan to improve that in the future ?

2015-07-09 Thread matd
Hi, Spark ec2 scripts are useful, but they install everything as root. AFAIK, it's not a good practice ;-) Why is it so ? Should these scripts reserved for test/demo purposes, and not to be used for a production system ? Is it planned in some roadmap to improve that, or to replace ec2-scripts