Or on your local laptop or desktop you can setup the env using VM and VM image of Hadoop and related components. Wrote instructions sometime back here https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140924133831-2560863-new-to-hadoop-and-want-to-setup-dev-environment On Nov 5, 2014 2:25 AM, "Jim Colestock" <j...@ramblingredneck.com> wrote:
> Hello Tim, > > Horton and Cloudera both offer VM’s (Including Virtual box, which is free) > you can pull down to play with, if you’re looking just for something small > to get you started. i’m partial to the horton works one myself. > > Hope that help. > > JC > > > > On Nov 4, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I want to setup an environment where I can teach myself hadoop. Usually > the way I'll handle this is to grab a machine off the Amazon free tier and > setup whatever software I want. > > However I realize that Hadoop is a memory intensive, big data solution. So > what I'm wondering is, would a t2.micro instance be sufficient for setting > up a cluster of hadoop nodes with the intention of learning it? To keep > things running longer in the free tier I would either setup however many > nodes as I want and keep them stopped when I'm not actively using them. Or > just setup a few nodes with a few different accounts (with a different > gmail address for each one.. easy enough to do). > > Failing that, what are some other free/cheap solutions for setting up a > hadoop learning environment? > > Thanks, > Tim > > -- > GPG me!! > > gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B > > >
