Is it possible to deploy and manage Solr through Ambari?

[#1]

The documentation for HDP 2.3 describes deploying Solr as a process of deploying packages to every HDFS node in the cluster, and there is a separate web UI for managing indexes, working with collections, etc. Is there a way to instead deploy through Ambari and/or see the health of and manage the Solr service in Ambari?

[#2]

@Ronald, take a look at this workshop - https://github.com/abajwa-hw/solr-stack.

[#3]

That will work for HDP 2.2, but is not the way to do it on 2.3. In 2.3 we have a proper RPM based install. This stack has not yet been updated to reflect the new deployment mechanism.

[#4]

This has been updated recently, see my comment below

[#5]

@Ronald McCollam Jira on the same

[#6 · Accepted solution]

So we worked with LW on an official TechPreview for Ambari managed Solr but this have not yet been released yet. Someone from PM org probably has a better idea of when the official TP will be out (maybe @Tim Hall can comment).

For demo scenarios only you can try the one I built here. Last weekend as part of the Amabri hack-fest I updated it to support HDPsearch, although the default is still Apache Solr.

To use HDPsearch instead, set the below property while installing the service

solr.download.location = HDPSEARCH

Having said that, there wasn't a whole lot of testing done so feel free to send me feedback offline if you have any issues