[AMBARI-9245] HDP Select extensibility to support other services that are not part of HDP stack

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: ambari-agent, ambari-client
• Labels: hdp-select
• Epic Link: Pluggable filesystem (HCFS) support
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Vijay Srinivasaraghavan
• Created: 21/Jan/15 18:39
• Updated: 17/Aug/15 16:26

Description

The current hdp-select implementation targets binaries that are installed and managed from HDP reposirory. The RPMs install the packages under /usr/hdp/<stack-version>.<release>/<service>/ location and hdp-select is used to manage the soft links on appropriate versions under /usr/hdp/current/ location. There are scenarios where new services could be hosted (for e.g., Rabbit MQ) as part of Ambari stack which does not follow same version numbering pattern. Also, they cannot be managed using existing hdp-select script to support multiple version/upgrade scenario.

Current option is to create a script similar to hdp-select and use it to manage. Alternatively, the hdp-select can be redigned to define some hooks to allow manage other services as well.