Ansible Hadoop

Ansible is a powerful automation tool that can be used to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters efficiently. Here are the general steps to use Ansible for deploying Hadoop:

1. Install Ansible: First, ensure that you have Ansible installed on your system. You can install Ansible using your package manager or pip if you’re using Python. For example, on Ubuntu, you can use:

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   sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ansible


2. Prepare Ansible Playbooks: Ansible uses playbooks, which are YAML files containing instructions for provisioning and configuring servers. You’ll need to create Ansible playbooks for deploying Hadoop. A sample playbook might include tasks like installing Java, setting up Hadoop configuration files, and starting Hadoop services.

   Here’s a simplified example of an Ansible playbook to install Hadoop:

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   ---
- hosts: hadoop-cluster
tasks:
- name: Install Java
apt:
name: openjdk-8-jdk
state: present

   – name: Download and extract Hadoop
   get_url:
   url: https://archive.apache.org/dist/hadoop/core/hadoop-3.3.1/hadoop-3.3.1.tar.gz
   dest: /tmp/hadoop.tar.gz

   – name: Extract Hadoop
   unarchive:
   src: /tmp/hadoop.tar.gz
   dest: /opt/
   remote_src: yes

   – name: Configure Hadoop
   template:
   src: hadoop-site.xml.j2
   dest: /opt/hadoop-3.3.1/etc/hadoop/hadoop-site.xml

   – name: Start Hadoop NameNode
   command: /opt/hadoop-3.3.1/bin/hdfs namenode -format
   async: 600
   poll: 0

   – name: Start Hadoop DataNode
   command: /opt/hadoop-3.3.1/bin/hdfs datanode
   async: 600
   poll: 0

   This playbook installs Java, downloads Hadoop, configures it, and starts the NameNode and DataNode. You would also need to create a Jinja2 template for the hadoop-site.xml.j2 file with your Hadoop configuration.

3. Inventory File: Create an Ansible inventory file (hosts) that lists the target servers where you want to deploy Hadoop. For example:

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   [hadoop-cluster]
namenode ansible_host=namenode-server-ip
datanode1 ansible_host=datanode1-ip
datanode2 ansible_host=datanode2-ip


4. Run the Playbook: Run the Ansible playbook using the ansible-playbook command:

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   ansible-playbook -i hosts hadoop.yml


   Replace hadoop.yml with the name of your playbook.

5. Monitor Hadoop: After the playbook completes, you can access the Hadoop cluster’s web interfaces to monitor the cluster status and jobs.