I¹ve heard people wanting to do mixed OS in the same OS family (like
centos X with centos YŠnot across families like centos X with SLES y). Not
sure how extensively it¹s been tested though.

But to do so, you have to be sure to register the Ambari Agents manually
(vs using SSH).


On 1/14/16, 9:37 AM, "Greg Hill" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Honestly, I don't know that anyone has ever tried, but I have a feeling it
>might not work out well.  The 'repo' is specified at the stack level, so
>you'd have to make a new cluster after modifying the repo url on the stack
>in order for the new nodes to even know to use a different repo from the
>old nodes for installing packages.  Also, the os_family and os_type is in
>the ambari-server configs and isn't overrideable per-node, unless there's
>some hidden feature I'm not aware of.
>
>Your best option is probably to spin up a new cluster with the new OS and
>migrate the data.
>
>Greg
>
>On 1/13/16, 6:20 PM, "Andrew Robertson" <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>Has anyone ever tried to run an Ambari cluster with hosts at different
>>centos versions (or some nodes with one OS like centos and other nodes
>>with something else?)
>>
>>Any reason this wouldn't be advised?
>>
>>I'm considering upgrading from centos 6 -> centos 7.  Given the
>>current centos 6 -> 7 upgrade path is "reinstall", this make take some
>>time to accomplish and I'd end up with a mix of both machine types in
>>the cluster during this time.
>>
>>I don't see any reasons this would not work - but I also don't see
>>anything that explicitly states this is a tested/advised config
>>either.
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>

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