If you need to install the specific version of HDP using Blue prints use the Following steps. Install ambari-server and ambari-agent and register it. Use the appropriate os version. Here I have used the os version as centos/redhat 7 Make sure you do it on a clean host with no existing hadooppackages etc. Create 4 files under say /root [root@vijaybluetest1 ~]# ls blueprint.json cluster.json repo.json utils.json blueprint.json :- Contains cluster definition. 1) cat blueprint.json { "host_groups" : [ { "name":"host_group_1", "components":[ { "name" : "NODEMANAGER" }, { "name" : "DATANODE" }, { "name" : "ZOOKEEPER_SERVER" }, { "name" : "HISTORYSERVER" }, { "name" : "JOURNALNODE" }, { "name" : "APP_TIMELINE_SERVER" }, { "name" : "RESOURCEMANAGER" }, { "name" : "MAPREDUCE2_CLIENT" }, { "name" : "YARN_CLIENT" }, { "name" : "HDFS_CLIENT" }, { "name" : "ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT" }, { "name" : "NAMENODE" }, { "name" : "SECONDARY_NAMENODE"} ], "cardinality":"1" } ], "Blueprints" : { "blueprint_name" : "vijay-test", "stack_name" : "HDP", "stack_version" : "2.5" } } Command to register curl -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X POST -u admin:admin http://vijaybluetest1.openstacklocal:8080/api/v1/blueprints/vijay-test -d @blueprint.json vijay-test :- is the blueprint_name specified in blueprint.json 2) cat repo.json { "Repositories":{ "base_url":"http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP/centos7/2.x/updates/2.5.3.0", "verify_base_url":true } } Register HDP version. curl -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X PUT -u admin:admin http://vijaybluetest1.openstacklocal:8080/api/v1/stacks/HDP/versions/2.5/operating_systems/redhat7/repositories/HDP-2.5 -d @repo.json please note :- repo.json contains the exact hdp version. 3) cat utils.json { "Repositories":{ "base_url":"http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.21/repos/centos7", "verify_base_url":true } } Register Utils version curl -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X PUT -u admin:admin http://vijaybluetest1.openstacklocal:8080/api/v1/stacks/HDP/versions/2.5/operating_systems/redhat7/repositories/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.21 -d @repo.json 4) cat cluster.json { "blueprint" : "vijay-test", "host_groups" :[ { "name" : "host_group_1", "hosts" : [ { "fqdn" : "vijaybluetest1.openstacklocal" } ] } ] } Trigger the cluster creation [root@vijaybluetest1 ~]# curl -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X POST -u admin:admin http://vijaybluetest1.openstacklocal:8080/api/v1/clusters/VIJAYCLUSTER -d @cluster.json Here VIJAYCLUSTER is the name of the cluster. { "href" : "http://vijaybluetest1.openstacklocal:8080/api/v1/clusters/VIJAYCLUSTER/requests/1", "Requests" : { "id" : 1, "status" : "Accepted" } }[root@vijaybluetest1 ~]# 4)Login into Ambari to check the status. ... View more