Welcome to Sahara!

The sahara project aims to provide users with a simple means to provision data processing frameworks (such as Hadoop, Spark and Storm) on OpenStack. This is accomplished by specifying configuration parameters such as the framework version, cluster topology, node hardware details and 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
• Sample sahara.conf file

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
• API Version 2 Development

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