hadoop-test-cluster 0.1.0

Installation

hadoop-test-cluster is available on PyPI:

$ pip install hadoop-test-cluster

You can also install from source on github:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/jcrist/hadoop-test-cluster.git

Overview

For testing purposes, infrastructure for setting up a mini hadoop cluster using docker is provided here. Two base images are provided:

• cdh5: provides a CDH5 installation of Hadoop 2.6

• cdh6: provides a CDH6 installation of Hadoop 3.0

Both images can be run with 2 different configurations:

• simple: uses simple authentication (unix user permissions)

• kerberos uses kerberos for authentication

Each cluster has three containers:

• One master node running the hdfs-namenode and yarn-resourcemanager, as well as the kerberos daemons.

• One worker node running the hdfs-datanode and yarn-nodemanager

• One edge node for interacting with the cluster

One user account has also been created for testing purposes:

• Login: testuser

• Password: testpass

For the kerberos setup, a keytab for this user has been put at /home/testuser/testuser.keytab, so you can kinit easily like kinit -kt /home/testuser/testuser.keytab testuser

An admin kerberos principal has also been created for use with kadmin:

• Login: admin/admin

• Password: adminpass

Ports

The full address is dependent on the IP address of your docker-machine driver, which can be found at:

$ docker-machine inspect --format {{.Driver.IPAddress}})

• NameNode RPC: 9000

• NameNode Webui: 50070

• ResourceManager Webui: 8088

• Kerberos KDC: 88

• Kerberos Kadmin: 749

• DataNode Webui: 50075

• NodeManager Webui: 8042

The htcluster commandline tool

To work with either cluster, please use the htcluster tool. This is a thin wrapper around docker-compose, with utilities for quickly doing most common actions.

$ htcluster --help
usage: htcluster [--help] [--version] command ...

Manage hadoop test clusters

positional arguments:
command
    startup   Start up a hadoop cluster.
    login     Login to a node in the cluster.
    exec      Execute a command on the node as a user
    shutdown  Shutdown the cluster and remove the containers.
    compose   Forward commands to docker-compose
    kerbenv   Output environment variables to setup kerberos locally. Intended
              use is to eval the output in bash: eval $(htcluster kerbenv)

optional arguments:
--help, -h  Show this help message then exit
--version   Show version then exit

$ htcluster startup --image cdh5 --config simple

$ htcluster startup --image cdh6 --config kerberos

$ htcluster startup --image cdh5 --mount .:workdir

$ htcluster login

$ htcluster exec -- myscript.sh some other args

$ htcluster shutdown

Authenticating with Kerberos from outside Docker

In the kerberized cluster, the webui’s are secured by kerberos, and so won’t be accessible from your browser unless you configure kerberos properly. This is doable, but takes a few steps:

1. Kerberos/SPNEGO requires that the requested url matches the hosts domain. The easiest way to do this is to modify your /etc/hosts and add a line for master.example.com:

   # Add a line to /etc/hosts pointing master.example.com to your docker-machine
   # driver ip address.
   # Note that you probably need to run this command as a super user.
   $ echo "$(docker-machine inspect --format {{.Driver.IPAddress}})  master.example.com" >> /etc/hosts

2. You must have kinit installed locally. You may already have it, otherwise it’s available through most package managers.

3. You need to tell kerberos where the krb5.conf is for this domain. This is done with an environment variable. To make this easy, htcluster has a command to do this:

   $ eval $(htcluster kerbenv)

4. At this point you should be able to kinit as testuser:

   $ kinit testuser@EXAMPLE.COM

5. To access kerberos secured pages in your browser you’ll need to do a bit of (simple) configuration. See [this documentation from Cloudera](https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/5-9-x/topics/cdh_sg_browser_access_kerberos_protected_url.html) for information on what’s needed for your browser.

6. Since environment variables are only available for processes started in the environment, you have three options here:

   • Restart your browser from the shell in which you added the environment variables

   • Manually get a ticket for the HTTP/master.example.com principal. Note that this will delete your other tickets, but works fine if you just want to see the webpage

     $ kinit -S HTTP/master.example.com testuser

   • Use curl to authenticate the first time, at which point you’ll already have the proper tickets in your cache, and the browser authentication will just work. Note that your version of curl must support the GSS-API.

     $ curl -V  # Check your version of curl supports GSS-API
     curl 7.59.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin17.2.0) libcurl/7.59.0 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.11
     Release-Date: 2018-03-14
     Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp
     Features: AsynchDNS IPv6 Largefile GSS-API Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz UnixSockets
     
     $ curl --negotiate -u : http://master.example.com:50070  # get a HTTP ticket for master.example.com

   After doing one of these, you should be able to access any of the pages from your browser.