Unfortunately right now there is no easy way to run Hue with Whirr. Probably you could add all the required plugins by changing the cdh install / configure scripts but for installing Hue you would need to create a new role.
Check the following presentation for more info: https://cwiki.apache.org/WHIRR/presentations.data/how-to-write-a-whirr-service.pdf Cheers, -- Andrei Savu / andreisavu.ro On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Joe Reger, Jr. <reg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy! > > I have some questions about running Hue (Cloudera's web interface to Hadoop) > on top of a Whirr-managed cluster. > > We're using the cluster installation instructions: > https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/CDHDOC/Hue+Installation#HueInstallation-InstallingandConfiguringHueonaCluster > > When we come to the section Configuring Hue Plugins for Hadoop we have some > questions. The file hdfs-site.xml isn't in /etc/hadoop-0.20/conf/. We do > find a copy of it in /etc/hadoop-0.20/conf.empty/. We know that getting > Whirr to run requires a symbolic link within the Hadoop conf directory. > Should we make the documented changes to that file? > > And the big question is... how do we get Whirr to install the Hue plugins on > each member of the cluster? We did find some code inside of Whirr that > seems to indicate that it supports Hue: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-whirr-commits/201008.mbox/%3c20100830195426.a3e062388...@eris.apache.org%3E > > But we don't know how to trigger that installation. Does it happen by > default across all members of the cluster? > > Thanks for any insight into Whirr + Hue installation/config. > > Joe
