Common Requirements¶

• The operating system must be Linux
• cloud-init must be installed
• ssh-server must be installed
  • if a firewall is active it must allow connections on port 22 to enable ssh

Vanilla Plugin Requirements¶

If the Vanilla Plugin is used for cluster deployment the guest is required tohave

• ssh-client installed
• Java (version >= 6)
• Apache Hadoop installed
• ‘hadoop’ user created

SeeSwift Integration for information on using Swift with your sahara cluster(for EDP support Swift integration is currently required).

To support EDP, the following components must also be installed on the guest:

• Oozie version 4 or higher
• mysql
• hive

SeeBuilding Images for Vanilla Plugin for instructions on building images for thisplugin.

Hortonworks Plugin Requirements¶

This plugin does not have any additional requirements. Currently, only theCentOS Linux and Ubuntu distributions are supported but other distributionswill be supported in the future.To speed up provisioning, the HDP packages can be pre-installed on the imageused. The packages’ versions depend on the HDP version being used.

Cloudera Plugin Requirements¶

Cloudera Plugin does not have any additional requirements, just build a CDHimage to deploy the cluster.

SeeBuilding Images for Cloudera Plugin for instructions on building images for thisplugin.