Automate cluster installation

[#1]

How to automate hdp installation through chef ?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

One way is to use Chef (OS + DBs + Partitions + ...) in combination with Ambari Blueprints (Cluster + Kerberos/Security). There are already some sample cookbooks out there that you can use as a starting point, e.g. https://github.com/bloomberg/chef-bcpc or https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/hadoop