You might be able to launch the application by running the apex cli as a separate process from your slider code and passing the apa. The apa could be in hdfs. This would however require apex cli to be present on all nodes as your slider code could be running on any node on the cluster.
Thanks On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Vivek Bhide <bhide.vi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes Thomas thats exactly what we are looking for. But using slider is a bit > trickier since slider manages the deployment of the application you give it > to it. Also as far as I have read, you need to have your whole project > structure as sliders expectation so that it can mange it by moving the code > to containers. Since a regular deployment of Apex just consist of moving an > .apa to some directory on any node in cluster (preferably edge node) and > then launching the application through Apex CLI using launch, we are not > sure as to what will change in terms of handling this task to slider > > I am looking for some guidelines or possible sample implementation > reference > that can give headstart > > While searching, found this below proposal about Apex which does says that > /'Apache Slider is a YARN application to deploy existing distributed > applications on YARN, monitor them, and make them larger or smaller as > desired even when the application is running. Once Slider matures, we will > take a look at close integration of Apex with Slider.' / > > which made me excited about using slider :) > > Regards > Vivek > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://apache-apex-users-list. > 78494.x6.nabble.com/Apache-Apex-with-Apache-slider-tp1802p1806.html > Sent from the Apache Apex Users list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >