For information, the 50 node limit on CDH is a past limitation. It is no longer the case.
*Support for unlimited nodes*. Previous versions of Cloudera Manager Free > Edition limited the number of managed nodes to 50. This limitation has been > removed. > https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/FREE45DOC/New+Features+in+Cloudera+Manager+Free+Edition+4 Bertrand On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Bruno Mahé <bm...@apache.org> wrote: > On 03/29/2013 01:09 AM, David Parks wrote: > >> Hmm, seems intriguing. I’m still not totally clear on bigtop here. It >> seems like they’re creating and maintain basically an installer for >> Hadoop? >> >> I tried following their docs for Ubuntu, but just get a 404 error on the >> first step, so it makes me wonder how reliable that project is. >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/BIGTOP/How+** >> to+install+Hadoop+**distribution+from+Bigtop<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/How+to+install+Hadoop+distribution+from+Bigtop> >> >> Has anyone actually used bigtop to deploy Hadoop in a production >> environment? >> >> > > Hi David, > > You may want to send an email to Apache Bigtop mailing lists with your > questions, but the goal of Apache Bigtop is three folds: > 1/ Provide top notch packages for Apache Hadoop related projects for the > most popular GNU/Linux distributions > 2/ Provide a point of integration and testing for all these projects > 3/ Provide means to reliably deploy a complete stack. > > Apache Bigtop was donated by Cloudera to the Apache Foundation and is > now used as the base for CDH (Cloudera's distribution). > > All the projects supported by Apache Bigtop have packages for > Debian/Ubuntu/SLES11/Fedora/**CentOS. > They also have tests to exercise integration points between all of them > (ex: Hive can use HBase which sits on top of HDFS). And in order to run > these tests, we also have a test framework. > Also before we can test for integration, we also have to ensure they can > be properly installed/upgraded/removed, with the right users, ulimits, > rights and so forth. So to that end, we also have a large chunk of the > tests and testing framework dedicated to testing the packages themselves. > > And finally, regarding the deployment, we have the following: > * Boxgrinder recipe people can use and modify to suit their need. This is > useful if you want to create your own virtual machine (kvm, vmware, > virtualbox) but also want to create images for ec2. > * kickstart file to build a live fedora image > * puppet recipes to deploy all these services. > > > Regarding your issue with the instructions on the wiki, this is because > they have not been updated since Apache Bigtop became a top level project, > and the location of the artefacts has changed. When reading the > instructions, please use the following as the base url: > http://www.apache.org/dist/**bigtop/bigtop-0.5.0/<http://www.apache.org/dist/bigtop/bigtop-0.5.0/> > > Please, let me know if you still have some issues. > > Thanks, > Bruno >
