Cloudera Manager is fairly opinionated. In its defence, it pretty much needs to be given that it needs to wrangle multiple underlying Open Source projects. Each of these, in turn, have their own quirks and opinions. The following is a description of how to recover a Cloudera Manager cluster post disaster, assuming that you have …
Category Archive: cloudera manager
Mar 30
Interesting Feature of Dockerfile Volume Directives
I’ve been rewriting a cleanroom version of the hadoop-in-a-box — just about finished. And, truth be told, the code, all in all, is a bit tighter than the original encumbered version. However, I ran into an interesting feature of Volumes — I had thought perhaps to optimize things a bit, but it caused some unexpected …
Mar 15
Zombie Apocalypse! Docker AUFS + Java + Low Memory …. Hadoop in a Box Cloudera Manager Cluster
TL;DR — When using AUFS in a memory constrained environment, Java can spawn (lots!) of Zombies. A workaround is to change the storage driver to the device mapper. In working on the Hadoop in a box CDH cluster with Cloudera Manager, I’ve discovered a few interesting things about AUFS. These experiences are with Ubuntu 14.04 …
Mar 10
Cloudera Manager GUI and API Can Step on Each Other
While learning how the configuration worked — in particular which arguments to pass in order to set non-default values, I discovered that I could lose changes by following these steps: Use the GUI to set a value and save it. This is just so that you can find the variable. Keep the GUI open. Dump …
Jan 28
Cloudera Manager, Embedded DB and Docker
If you ever see a message like:
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could not open session |
on startup and the Cloudera manager won’t start, it’s because you did not start the container in privileged mode:
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docker run -d --hostname=master --privileged=true --name=master cdh-master |