[BIGTOP-730] add tarball driver into Bigtop

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.5.0
• Component/s: deployment
• Assignee: Johnny Zhang
• Reporter: Johnny Zhang
• Created: 05/Oct/12 21:35
• Updated: 26/Mar/13 18:20

Description

We should have a tarball driver for each component, it will be:

• convenient for people to deploy tarball to run map reduce job in a single VM
• Whirr is only for EC2, but we want this tarball driver be generic for Linux user.
• driver should deploy Hadoop tarball by default when deploy other tarball like Hive tarball, or Pig tarball
• driver should be able to deploy multiple projects. For example, if user choose Hive+Pig, then driver will deploy Hadoop tarball + both Hive,Pig tarball
• The version of each project tarball will be same as the version of project Bigtop 0.5 shipped

I already have a prototype, and I am thinking about where to put it and a suitable way to invoke it as a user.