Apache Nifi (1.17.0) installation on Linux (ubuntu 18.04)

[#1]

Hi, 

I wanted to install Apache Nifi 1.16.3 or 1.17.0 on my Ubuntu system. However, I am not able to find the required tar files from the Apache Downloads page. 

Can someone please drop links where I can see the nifi-1.17.0-bin.tar.gz/nifi-1.16.3-bin.tar.gz   to install in ubuntu 18.04?

[#2]

@ftrg ,

You don't need the tar.gz file. You can install using the -bin.zip file (https://dlcdn.apache.org/nifi/1.17.0/nifi-1.17.0-bin.zip).

Just download this file and unzip it with:

unzip nifi-1.17.0-bin.zip

Cheers,

André

[#3]

The problem with zip instead of tar gz is that uzip does not support folder and file permissions. Therefore incorrect permissions may be set for sensitive files in nifi directories; conf files for example that contain passwords have read for all. This creates additional manual steps to correct all the permissions. Is there a reason why we switched away from .gz?

[#4]

Hi @LorencH ,

I'm of the opinion that if security is a concern (as it should be for any deployment) you should never rely on the permissions that come within the tarball. Your deployment procedure, automated or not, should always extract the files and explicitly "chown" and "chmod" the appropriate files to set the desired ownership and permissions.

I don't know of the reasons to eliminate the tarball, though.

Cheers,

André

[#5]

@ftrg The tar.gz was removed from 1.17.0

You can find 1.16.3 here:

https://archive.apache.org/dist/nifi/1.16.3/