Otto - Also, in reference to the Slack channel note about Ansible - the
installation/commands would not be managed by Ansible. We'd likely only use
it as needed to do very basic calls out to the install/setup scripts that
we would provide for Metron. There's probably some difference between how
> There is no equivalent usable ‘Metron’ application.
That is absolutely part of the problem here. We are a platform on a
platform, whereas many of the other projects in the Hadoop stack have very
loose coupling/integrations with the other projects. HDF, which NiFi is a
part of, would perhaps be
I need a little while to think about this, but I would just like to say
that NiFi is a really bad example to compare Metron too.
Nifi can be deployed as a single zip file and run from wherever it is
unzipped. It is more of an application that can be clustered with other
instances of that
I'd like to discuss Metron's installation and management. We have used
Ambari for some time now, with and without an MPack for Metron (and
Elasticsearch). While this mechanism has proved useful to the project, it
is not without cost. This makes us an outlier among Apache projects in
terms of what
