[OOZIE-1722] When an ApplicationMaster restarts, it restarts the launcher job

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: trunk
• Fix Version/s: 4.2.0
• Assignee: Robert Kanter
• Reporter: Robert Kanter
• Created: 28/Feb/14 21:46
• Updated: 18/May/15 07:11
• Resolved: 06/Mar/14 06:49

Description

When using Yarn, there are some situations in which the ApplicationMaster can be restarted (e.g. RM failover, the AM dies and another attempt is made, etc).

When this happens, it starts the launcher job again, which will start over. So, if that launcher has already launched a job, we'll end up with two instances of the same job, which can be problematic. For example, if you have a Pig action, the Pig client might run a job, but then the launcher gets restarted by an AM restart and launches that same job again.

We don't have a way of "re-attaching" to previously launched jobs; however, with YARN-1461 and MAPREDUCE-5699, we can use yarn tags to find anything the launcher previously launched that's running and kill them. We still have to start over, but at least we're not running two instances of a job at the same time.

Here's what we can do for each action type:

• Pig, Sqoop, Hive
  • Kill previously launched jobs and start over
• MapReduce (different because of the optimization)
  • Exit launcher if a previously launched job already exists
• Java, Shell
  • No out-of-the-box support for this
  • Like with other things, the Java action can take advantage of this like Pig, Sqoop, and Hive if the user adds some code
• DistCp
  • Not supported
• SSH, Email
  • N/A

The yarn tags won't be available until Hadoop 2.4.0, but is in the nightly (i.e. Hadoop 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT); and its obviously not in Hadoop 1.x. To be able to use the Yarn methods and the new methods for tagging, we can add a new type of Hadooplib called "Hadoop Utils" where we can put classes that are specific to a specific version of Hadoop; the other implementations can have dummy versions. For example, in the Hadoop-2 Hadoop Utils, we can put a method foo() that calls some yarn stuff but in the Hadoop-1 Hadoop Utils, the foo() method would either do the equivalent in MR1 or a no-op. So for now, I put some methods in the Hadoop-3 Hadoop Utils that use the tags and the Hadoop-1, Hadoop-2, and Hadoop-23 Hadoop Utils all have dummy implementations that don't do anything (so the existing behavior is preserved). The Hadoop Utils modules will allow us to take advantage of Hadoop 2 only features in the future, while still being able to compile against Hadoop 1; so it's not just limited to this feature.

Issue Links

• depends upon: YARN-1461 RM API and RM changes to handle tags for running jobs
• depends upon: MAPREDUCE-5699 Allow setting tags on MR jobs
• is related to: OOZIE-1025 Killing oozie job kills oozie launcher job alone in hadoop.
• relates to: YARN-2016 Yarn getApplicationRequest start time range is not honored
• relates to: TEZ-909 Provide support for application tags
• links to: ReviewBoard

Sub-Tasks

• When an ApplicationMaster restarts, it restarts the launcher job: DistCp followup: Resolved
• Add support to Hadoop-2 for AM restarts of the launcher job: Closed
• Fix test failures caused by OOZIE-1722: Closed