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What is the alternatives of parcel

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What is the alternatives of cloudera parcel in HortonWorks? any link or docs to the related topic .

Thanks,

Khirod

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Essentially Ambari uses something called stacks. It is a module that governs one of the services in the cluster with functions to install/start/stop dependencies etc. Unlike parcels Most of the stacks are based on yum/zypper packages under the cover for install which is nice and linux standard.

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Stacks+and+Services

Not too familiar with parcels but I would think that is more or less the equivalent?

Just to consolidare the comment below, here are some example stacks by @Ali Bajwa

https://github.com/abajwa-hw/ambari-workshops

And another helpful article:

http://mozartanalytics.com/how-to-create-a-software-stack-for-ambari/

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Master Guru

Essentially Ambari uses something called stacks. It is a module that governs one of the services in the cluster with functions to install/start/stop dependencies etc. Unlike parcels Most of the stacks are based on yum/zypper packages under the cover for install which is nice and linux standard.

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Stacks+and+Services

Not too familiar with parcels but I would think that is more or less the equivalent?

Just to consolidare the comment below, here are some example stacks by @Ali Bajwa

https://github.com/abajwa-hw/ambari-workshops

And another helpful article:

http://mozartanalytics.com/how-to-create-a-software-stack-for-ambari/

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Contributor

Thank you Benjamin for the update . I guess hortonwork should have some way to create custom stacks and deploy it through Ambari resource manager .

I checked through register version , I could not get any option to add any custom stack and its remote repository. Please help .

Regards,

Khirod

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There are ways to make a custom stack. Its all open source. Here are some of @Ali Bajwa excellent demo stacks.

https://github.com/abajwa-hw/ambari-workshops

This article may also help:

http://mozartanalytics.com/how-to-create-a-software-stack-for-ambari/