[AMBARI-10029] Node auto-recovery

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.0
• Component/s: ambari-agent, ambari-server
• Assignee: Sumit Mohanty
• Reporter: Sumit Mohanty
• Created: 11/Mar/15 16:26
• Updated: 24/Apr/16 20:27
• Resolved: 10/Jun/15 01:53

Description

Using blue-print, it is possible to perform a zero-touch install of hadoop clusters using Ambari. This is especially useful in the cloud environment. However, cloud environment also can be dynamic in the sense that nodes will get rebooted or reset to the original image.

Reset, being that the node (usually VM) gets reverted to original state where it joined the cluster. It is assumed that a reset node has ambari-agent installed and configured to communicate with the server. The node may also have all packages pre-instaled.

Node recovery is the feature to bring back a rebooted/reset online by starting or installing and then starting the host components that are already on the host.

In general, temporarily losing a node and then performing node recovery on a slave host should not affect the whole cluster. If its is a master node then there can be some disruption based on what is deployed on the master host and if HA is enabled for the master services or not.

Node recovery, discussed in this JIRA, only addresses the ability to automatically INSTALL/CONFIGURE/START host components on the node so that the desired state of the host component matches the actual state.

Issue Links

• duplicates: AMBARI-10834 Restart services automatically after a node reboot
• is related to: AMBARI-12767 Ability to restart failed process automatically
• links to: Review Board