@Deepak k You may find Ambari Blueprints helpful? It is not the same thing as defining a stack, but it does offer a lot of control over which components are installed and where. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Blueprints Ambari Blueprints are a declarative definition of a cluster. With a Blueprint, you specify a Stack, the Component layout and the Configurations to materialize a Hadoop cluster instance (via a REST API) without having to use the Ambari Cluster Install Wizard. ... View more