Cloudbreak blueprint for high-availability Hadoop and Hive
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This is a basic Ambari blueprint for clusters that implement high availability for HDFS, Yarn and Hive for HDP 2.6. This includes Namenode HA, Resourcemanager HA, Hive Metastore server HA and Hive Server HA. It does not implement a high-availability database for the Hive metastore, though, as that is done within the relational database backed itself. It has been developed and tested using Cloudbreak, but should work with Ambari as well.
Hostgroup Layout

Raw Blueprint JSON
{
"Blueprints": {
"blueprint_name": "cb24-hdp26-ha",
"stack_name": "HDP",
"stack_version": "2.6"
},
"settings": [
{
"recovery_settings": []
},
{
"service_settings": [
{
"name": "HIVE",
"credential_store_enabled": "false"
}
]
},
{
"component_settings": []
}
],
"host_groups": [
{
"name": "master_mgmt",
"components": [
{
"name": "METRICS_COLLECTOR"
},
{
"name": "METRICS_GRAFANA"
},
{
"name": "ZOOKEEPER_SERVER"
},
{
"name": "JOURNALNODE"
},
{
"name": "INFRA_SOLR"
},
{
"name": "INFRA_SOLR_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "METRICS_MONITOR"
},
{
"name": "ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "HDFS_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "YARN_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "OOZIE_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "MAPREDUCE2_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "HIVE_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "TEZ_CLIENT"
}
],
"cardinality": "1"
},
{
"name": "master_nn1",
"components": [
{
"name": "NAMENODE"
},
{
"name": "ZKFC"
},
{
"name": "RESOURCEMANAGER"
},
{
"name": "METRICS_MONITOR"
},
{
"name": "APP_TIMELINE_SERVER"
},
{
"name": "HIVE_METASTORE"
},
{
"name": "HIVE_SERVER"
},
{
"name": "HCAT"
},
{
"name": "WEBHCAT_SERVER"
},
{
"name": "ZOOKEEPER_SERVER"
},
{
"name": "JOURNALNODE"
},
{
"name": "HIVE_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "HDFS_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "YARN_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "OOZIE_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "LIVY2_SERVER"
},
{
"name": "SPARK2_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "MAPREDUCE2_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "TEZ_CLIENT"
}
],
"cardinality": "1"
},
{
"name": "master_nn2",
"components": [
{
"name": "NAMENODE"
},
{
"name": "ZKFC"
},
{
"name": "RESOURCEMANAGER"
},
{
"name": "METRICS_MONITOR"
},
{
"name": "HISTORYSERVER"
},
{
"name": "HIVE_METASTORE"
},
{
"name": "HIVE_SERVER"
},
{
"name": "SLIDER"
},
{
"name": "PIG"
},
{
"name": "OOZIE_SERVER"
},
{
"name": "ZOOKEEPER_SERVER"
},
{
"name": "JOURNALNODE"
},
{
"name": "HIVE_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "HDFS_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "YARN_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "OOZIE_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "SPARK2_JOBHISTORYSERVER"
},
{
"name": "SPARK2_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "MAPREDUCE2_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "TEZ_CLIENT"
}
],
"cardinality": "1"
},
{
"name": "datanode",
"components": [
{
"name": "HIVE_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "TEZ_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "SPARK2_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "YARN_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "OOZIE_CLIENT"
},
{
"name": "DATANODE"
},
{
"name": "METRICS_MONITOR"
},
{
"name": "NODEMANAGER"
}
],
"cardinality": "3+"
}
],
"configurations": [
{
"core-site": {
"properties": {
"fs.trash.interval": "4320",
"fs.defaultFS": "hdfs://mycluster",
"hadoop.proxyuser.yarn.hosts": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%,%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%",
"hadoop.proxyuser.hive.hosts": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%,%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%",
"ha.zookeeper.quorum": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:2181,%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:2181,%HOSTGROUP::master_mgmt%:2181"
}
}
},
{
"hdfs-site": {
"properties": {
"dfs.namenode.safemode.threshold-pct": "0.99",
"dfs.client.failover.proxy.provider.mycluster": "org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.ha.ConfiguredFailoverProxyProvider",
"dfs.ha.automatic-failover.enabled": "true",
"dfs.ha.fencing.methods": "shell(/bin/true)",
"dfs.ha.namenodes.mycluster": "nn1,nn2",
"dfs.namenode.http-address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:50070",
"dfs.namenode.http-address.mycluster.nn1": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:50070",
"dfs.namenode.http-address.mycluster.nn2": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:50070",
"dfs.namenode.https-address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:50470",
"dfs.namenode.https-address.mycluster.nn1": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:50470",
"dfs.namenode.https-address.mycluster.nn2": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:50470",
"dfs.namenode.rpc-address.mycluster.nn1": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8020",
"dfs.namenode.rpc-address.mycluster.nn2": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:8020",
"dfs.namenode.shared.edits.dir": "qjournal://%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8485;%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:8485;%HOSTGROUP::master_mgmt%:8485/mycluster",
"dfs.nameservices": "mycluster"
}
}
},
{
"hive-site": {
"properties": {
"hive.metastore.uris": "thrift://%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:9083,thrift://%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:9083",
"hive.exec.compress.output": "true",
"hive.merge.mapfiles": "true",
"hive.server2.tez.initialize.default.sessions": "true",
"hive.server2.transport.mode": "http"
}
}
},
{
"webhcat-site": {
"properties_attributes": {},
"properties": {
"templeton.hive.properties": "hive.metastore.local=false,hive.metastore.uris=thrift://%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:9083\,thrift://%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:9083,hive.metastore.sasl.enabled=false"
}
}
},
{
"mapred-site": {
"properties": {
"mapreduce.job.reduce.slowstart.completedmaps": "0.7",
"mapreduce.map.output.compress": "true",
"mapreduce.output.fileoutputformat.compress": "true"
}
}
},
{
"yarn-site": {
"properties": {
"hadoop.registry.rm.enabled": "true",
"hadoop.registry.zk.quorum": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:2181,%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:2181,%HOSTGROUP::master_mgmt%:2181",
"yarn.log.server.url": "http://%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:19888/jobhistory/logs",
"yarn.resourcemanager.address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8050",
"yarn.resourcemanager.admin.address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8141",
"yarn.resourcemanager.cluster-id": "yarn-cluster",
"yarn.resourcemanager.ha.automatic-failover.zk-base-path": "/yarn-leader-election",
"yarn.resourcemanager.ha.enabled": "true",
"yarn.resourcemanager.ha.rm-ids": "rm1,rm2",
"yarn.resourcemanager.hostname": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%",
"yarn.resourcemanager.hostname.rm1": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%",
"yarn.resourcemanager.hostname.rm2": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%",
"yarn.resourcemanager.recovery.enabled": "true",
"yarn.resourcemanager.resource-tracker.address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8025",
"yarn.resourcemanager.scheduler.address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8030",
"yarn.resourcemanager.store.class": "org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.recovery.ZKRMStateStore",
"yarn.resourcemanager.webapp.address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8088",
"yarn.resourcemanager.webapp.address.rm1": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8088",
"yarn.resourcemanager.webapp.address.rm2": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:8088",
"yarn.resourcemanager.webapp.https.address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8090",
"yarn.resourcemanager.webapp.https.address.rm1": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8090",
"yarn.resourcemanager.webapp.https.address.rm2": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn2%:8090",
"yarn.timeline-service.address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:10200",
"yarn.timeline-service.webapp.address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8188",
"yarn.timeline-service.webapp.https.address": "%HOSTGROUP::master_nn1%:8190"
}
}
}
]
}
The blueprint file is also attached: cb24-hdp26-ha.txt

