Welcome to Sahara!

Sahara project aims to provide users with simple means to provision a Hadoop cluster at OpenStack by specifying several parameters like Hadoop version, cluster topology, nodes hardware details and a few more.

Overview

• Rationale
• Architecture
• Roadmap

User guide

Installation

• Sahara Installation Guide
• Sahara Configuration Guide
• OpenStack Dashboard Configuration Guide
• Sahara Advanced Configuration Guide
• Sahara Upgrade Guide

How To

• Getting Started
• Sahara (Data Processing) UI User Guide
• Features Overview
• Registering an Image

Plugins

• Provisioning Plugins
• Vanilla Plugin
• Hortonworks Data Platform Plugin
• Spark Plugin
• Cloudera Plugin
• MapR Distribution Plugin

Elastic Data Processing

• Elastic Data Processing (EDP)
• EDP Requirements
• EDP Technical Considerations

API

• Sahara REST API v1.1
  • 1 General API information
  • 2 API

Miscellaneous

• Requirements for Guests
• Swift Integration
• Building Images for Vanilla Plugin
• Building Images for Cloudera Plugin

Developer Guide

Programming HowTos and Tutorials

• Development Guidelines
• Setting Up a Development Environment
• Setup DevStack
• Sahara UI Dev Environment Setup
• Quickstart guide
• How to Participate
• How to build Oozie
• Adding Database Migrations
• Sahara Testing
• Log Guidelines

Background Concepts for Sahara

• Pluggable Provisioning Mechanism
• Plugin SPI
• Object Model
• Elastic Data Processing (EDP) SPI
• Sahara Cluster Statuses Overview

Other Resources

• Project hosting
• Code Reviews with Gerrit
• Continuous Integration with Jenkins