[Beowulf] Does anyone know if Apache Ambari has been abandoned?

[Tony Brian Albers]

Hi Doug,

I think you're right. I've made pretty much the same conclusions as you, 
and your input is highly appreciated.

We've actually considered using ansible for deploying the hadoop 
components and their configs. So far this seems to be working.



What did you have in mind when you mentioned "..but at some point may 
move to a more Apache based home grown install."? I'd like to know more 
about that possibility.



Thanks again,

/tony


Douglas Eadline wrote:
> 
> 
> The short answer is probably.
> 
> The long answer is as follows. Hortonworks (company spun out
> of Yahoo for Hadoop development and support) provided
> a Hadoop "distro" called HDP (kind of like Red Hat).
> 
> They put a lot of effort (paid programmers) into the HDP
> (and variants) and Ambari as way to install and manage HDP.
> 
> So the bill comes due on Hadoop and both Hortonworks and
> the other "big"  Hadoop company, Cloudera combine and
> re-design the whole lot for on-prem/cloud seamless (fill in
> marketing buzzwords here). Seems the Hadoop peak on the
> Gartner Hype curve was a bit too high. The Hadoop
> ecosystem is still viable and good tech, just got
> over sold to the VC's (Intel invested $742 million
> in Cloudera!)
> 
> In any case, they discontinued and basically "closed sourced" HDP
> after version 3.1.4 and Ambari 2.7.4. You can ask for a pass code
> to download new versions but I'm not sure what it will cost
> (maybe just a call from a salesperson)
> 
> So yes, "He's dead Jim" unless some community members
> jump in. And Ambari pretty much only worked turn-key
> with HDP versions.
> 
> Hadoop (and friends) sources are still available from the Apache
> site. I use them quite a bit for rolling my own
> Hadoop/Spark/Hive/Kafka ... VMs. I use the last open
> version of HDP and Ambari on our Limulus personal
> clusters, but at some point may move to a more
> Apache based home grown install.
> 
> IMO, Ambari is nice, very slick and a bit over complicated
> which is basically a true statement for the whole
> Hadoop Big Data ecosystem.
> 
> --
> Doug
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>>
>> I'm looking into using Ambari on a new cluster, but as far as I can
>> tell, there's no releases after 2.7.5 which came in December '19.
>>
>> However, the documentation at
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Releasing+Ambari
>> states that 2.7.x is deprecated and gives instructions on how to build
>> 2.8.x.
>>
>> But I can't find 2.8.x anywhere..
>>
>> Any ideas/suggestions? I'm puzzled.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> /tony
>>
>>
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> 
> --
> Doug
> 


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Tony Albers - Systems Architect - IT Development Royal Danish Library, 
Victor Albecks Vej 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Tel: +45 2566 2383 - CVR/SE: 2898 8842 - EAN: 5798000792142