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
• Sahara UI Installation Guide
• Sahara Upgrade Guide

How To

• Getting Started
• Sahara UI User Guide
• Features Overview
• Registering an Image

Plugins

• Provisioning Plugins
• Vanilla Plugin
• Hortonworks Data Plaform Plugin

Elastic Data Processing

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

APIs

• Sahara REST API docs
  • Sahara REST API v1.0
  • Sahara REST API v1.1 (EDP)

Miscellaneous

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

Developer Guide

Programming HowTos and Tutorials

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

Background Concepts for Sahara

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

Other Resources

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