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Deploy and Configure a Single-Node Hadoop Cluster

Many cloud platforms and third-party service providers offer Hadoop as a service or VM/container image. This lowers the barrier of entry for those wishing to get started with Hadoop. In this hands-on lab, you will have the opportunity to deploy a single-node Hadoop cluster in a pseudo-distributed configuration. Doing so demonstrates the deployment and configuration of each individual component of Hadoop that will get you ready for when you want to start working with a multi-node cluster to separate and cluster Hadoop services. In this learning activity, you will be performing the following: * Installing Java * Deploying Hadoop from an archive file * Configuring Hadoop's `JAVA_HOME` * Configuring the default filesystem for Hadoop * Configuring HDFS replication * Setting up passwordless SSH * Formatting the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) * Starting Hadoop * Creating files and directories in Hadoop * Examining a text file with a MapReduce job

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Duration
Clock icon 2h 0m
Published
Clock icon Jan 14, 2019

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Install Java

    Log into Node 1 as cloud_user and install the java-19-amazon-corretto-devel package:

    sudo yum -y install java-19-amazon-corretto-devel

  2. Challenge

    Deploy Hadoop

    From the cloud_user home directory, download Hadoop-2.9.2 from your desired mirror. You can view a list of mirrors here:

    curl -O http://mirrors.gigenet.com/apache/hadoop/common/hadoop-3.3.4/hadoop-3.3.4.tar.gz

    Unpack the archive in place:

    tar -xzf hadoop-3.3.4.tar.gz

    Delete the archive file:

    rm hadoop-3.3.4.tar.gz

    Rename the installation directory:

    mv hadoop-3.3.4/ hadoop/

  3. Challenge

    Configure java_home

    From /home/cloud_user/hadoop, set JAVA_HOME in etc/hadoop/hadoop-env.sh by changing the following line:

    export JAVA_HOME=${JAVA_HOME}

    Change it to this:

    export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-19-amazon-corretto/

    Save and close the file.

  4. Challenge

    Configure Core Hadoop

    Set the default filesystem to hdfs on localhost in /home/cloud_user/hadoop/etc/hadoop/core-site.xml by changing the following lines:

    <configuration>
</configuration>

    Change them to this:

    <configuration>
  <property>
    <name>fs.defaultFS</name>
    <value>hdfs://localhost:9000</value>
  </property>
</configuration>

    Save and close the file.

  5. Challenge

    Configure HDFS

    Set the default block replication to 1 in /home/cloud_user/hadoop/etc/hadoop/hdfs-site.xml by changing the following lines:

    <configuration>
</configuration>

    Change them to this:

    <configuration>
  <property>
    <name>dfs.replication</name>
    <value>1</value>
  </property>
</configuration>

    Save and close the file.

  6. Challenge

    Set Up Passwordless SSH Access to localhost

    As cloud_user, generate a public/private RSA key pair with:

    ssh-keygen

    The default option for each prompt will suffice.

    Add your newly generated public key to your authorized keys list with:

    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >>  ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

  7. Challenge

    Format the Filesystem

    From /home/cloud_user/hadoop/, format the DFS with:

    bin/hdfs namenode -format

  8. Challenge

    Start Hadoop

    Start the NameNode and DataNode daemons from /home/cloud_user/hadoop with:

    sbin/start-dfs.sh

  9. Challenge

    Download and Copy the Latin Text to Hadoop

    From /home/cloud_user/hadoop, download the latin.txt file with:

    curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxacademy/content-hadoop-quick-start/master/latin.txt

    From /home/cloud_user/hadoop, create the /user and /user/root directories in Hadoop with:

    bin/hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /user/cloud_user

    From /home/cloud_user/hadoop/, copy the latin.txt file to Hadoop at /user/cloud_user/latin with:

    bin/hdfs dfs -put latin.txt latin

  10. Challenge

    Examine the latin.txt Text with MapReduce

    From /home/cloud_user/hadoop/, use the hadoop-mapreduce-examples-*.jar to calculate the average length of the words in the /user/cloud_user/latin file and save the job output to /user/cloud_user/latin_wordmean_output in Hadoop with:

    bin/hadoop jar share/hadoop/mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-examples-3.3.4.jar wordmean latin latin_wordmean_output

    From /home/cloud_user/hadoop/, examine your wordmean job output files with:

    bin/hdfs dfs -cat latin_wordmean_output/*
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