Configuring the Data Processing (sahara) service (optional)¶
Note
This feature is experimental at this time and it has not been fully production tested yet.
Sahara provide users with a simple means to provision data processing frameworks (such as Hadoop, Spark and Storm) on OpenStack.
Sahara is configured using the /etc/openstack_deploy/conf.d/sahara.yml
file and the /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml
file.
Configuring target hosts¶
Modify /etc/openstack_deploy/conf.d/sahara.yml
by adding a list
containing the infrastructure target hosts in the sahara-infra_hosts
section:
In sahara.yml
:
sahara-infra_hosts: infra01: ip: INFRA01_IP_ADDRESS infra02: ip: INFRA02_IP_ADDRESS infra03: ip: INFRA03_IP_ADDRESS
Replace *_IP_ADDRESS
with the IP address of the br-mgmt container
management bridge on each target host.
This hosts will be used to deploy the containers where sahara will be installed.
Configuring the cluster network¶
Sahara is configured to use the neutron implementation of OpenStack Networking.
Floating IP management¶
By default sahara is configured to use fixed IP addresses for access. This
is controlled by the sahara_use_floating_ips
variable. By changing
sahara_use_floating_ips
to True
the user may specify a floating IP
address pool for each node group directly.
In
user_variables.yml
:sahara_use_floating_ips: False
Warning
When using floating IP addresses for management every instance in the cluster must have a floating IP address, otherwise sahara will not be able to utilize that cluster.
When using fixed IP addresses (sahara_use_floating_ips=False
) the user
will be able to choose the fixed IP network for all instances in a cluster.
It is important to ensure that all instances running sahara have access to
the fixed IP networks.
Object Storage access using proxy users¶
By default sahara is configured to use proxy users and delegated trusts
for Object Storage access. In that way, users are not required to enter
credentials for their data sources and job binaries referenced in Object
Storage. To disable this functionality change the following variable to
False
.
In
user_variables.yml
:sahara_use_domain_for_proxy_users: True
Also, is it possible to change which roles the trust users will receive
in the proxy domain, by default it receives the _member_
role.
In
user_variables.yml
:sahara_proxy_user_role_names: _member_
Warning
In the context of the proxy user, any roles that are required for Object Storage access by the project owning the object store must be delegated to the proxy user for authentication to be successful.
Configuring cluster instances NTP¶
By default sahara will enable the NTP service on all cluster instances if
the NTP package is included in the image. The default NTP server will be
pool.ntp.org
this can be overridden using the
sahara_default_ntp_server
variable.
In
user_variables.yml
:sahara_default_ntp_server: "pool.ntp.org"
Configuring plugins¶
The following plugins are installed and loaded by default:
sahara_plugin_base: - vanilla - spark - cdh - ambari
To add/remove plugins, just change the sahara_plugin_base
variable
accordingly, in the user_variables.yml
file.
Configuring notifications¶
Sahara can be configured to send notifications to the OpenStack Telemetry module. By default, the variable is set to true if there are any Ceilometer hosts in the environment. To change this, the following variable must be set:
In
user_variables.yml
:sahara_ceilometer_enabled: True
Dashboard¶
To enable the Data Processing panel on horizon, the following variable should be set:
In
user_variables.yml
:horizon_enable_sahara_ui: True
Setting up Sahara¶
Run the setup-hosts playbook, to create the sahara containers, and the repo-build playbook to update the repository with the sahara packages.
# cd /opt/openstack-ansible/playbooks # openstack-ansible setup-hosts.yml # openstack-ansible repo-build.yml
Run the sahara and horizon playbooks to install sahara and enable the Data Processing panel in horizon:
# cd /opt/openstack-ansible/playbooks # openstack-ansible os-sahara-install.yml # openstack-ansible os-horizon-install.yml