Hari Sekhon created AMBARI-8815:
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Summary: Add Parcel support similar to Cloudera Manager
Key: AMBARI-8815
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-8815
Project: Ambari
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: stacks
Affects Versions: 1.7.0
Environment: HDP 2.2
Reporter: Hari Sekhon
Instead of installing lots of RPMs consider adding Parcel support as is done in
Cloudera Manager.
I wasn't sure about it when we first started using it in Cloudera but it's
actually much simpler and cleaner.
A Parcel is basically just a tarball that you unpack to /opt/<stack>/<version>
and then link /opt/<stack>/current to the currently active version so you can
easily keep lots of them adjacently.
It also simplifies deploying a stack since there is no variation of what is
installed and what is missing, it's always the same directory tree and linking
is very simple (much simpler than the latest HDP 2.2 attempt where
/usr/hdp/current doesn't actually map straight to the version dir meaning you
can't just use /usr/hdp/current/... as the prefix for all commands like you
should be able to - as I used to do on Cloudera).
Having a static prefix that is relinked like /opt/<stack>/current would make
commands portable across different versions of the stack, a major win compared
to the current HDP 2.2 implementation where you need to explicitly specify a
prefix containing the exact version eg. /usr/hdp/2.2.0.0-2041/ - which not
portable at all (this might actually just be because the symlinks under
current/ are named differently to what they link to though).
Regards,
Hari Sekhon
(ex-Cloudera)
http://www.linkedin.com/in/harisekhon
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