Ambari blueprints deployment and wrong JDK being installed

[#1]

I'm trying to use a custom JDK with ambari, so I setup the server with ambari-server setup -j <custom_java_home>.

So nothing wrong at that point, the server runs flawlessly.

However, if I try to provision a cluster using blueprints (which doesn't give me a JDK option unlike the manual process), during bootstrap on the agents, a yum install java-openjdk-* is executed at some unknown point...

*Nothing* related is printed to stdout/stderr of the components installation...

Any ideas?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

ok, here's what the problem was.... in the bootstrap process there are some rpm packages being installed that depend on the package 'java'... as I was installing from source no package could provide java and yum would resolve to openjdk...

here's a little chef snipplet that installs the rpm from oracle (you can grab the url from their official distribution):

execute 'downloading java' do
  command <<-EOF
  cd /root && \
  wget --no-cookies --no-check-certificate --header \
  \"Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie\" \
  \"#{node['java']['pkg_url']}\"
  EOF
  creates "/root/#{node['java']['pkg_name']}"
end
yum_package 'java' do
  source "/root/#{node['java']['pkg_name']}"
end