OpenStack Sahara Essentials
About this ebook
This book targets data scientists, cloud developers and Devops Engineers who would like to become proficient with OpenStack Sahara. Ideally, this book is well suitable for readers who are familiars with databases, Hadoop and Spark solutions. Additionally, a basic prior knowledge of OpenStack is expected. The readers should also be familiar with different Linux boxes, distributions and virtualization technology.
What You Will LearnIntegrate and Install Sahara with OpenStack environmentLearn Sahara architecture under the hoodRapidly configure and scale Hadoop clusters on top of OpenStackExplore the Sahara REST API to create, deploy and manage a Hadoop clusterLearn the Elastic Processing Data (EDP) facility to execute jobs in clusters from SaharaCover other Hadoop stable plugins existing supported by SaharaDiscover different features provided by Sahara for Hadoop provisioning and deploymentLearn how to troubleshoot OpenStack Sahara issuesIn DetailThe Sahara project is a module that aims to simplify the building of data processing capabilities on OpenStack.
The goal of this book is to provide a focused, fast paced guide to installing, configuring, and getting started with integrating Hadoop with OpenStack, using Sahara.
The book should explain to users how to deploy their data-intensive Hadoop and Spark clusters on top of OpenStack. It will also cover how to use the Sahara REST API, how to develop applications for Elastic Data Processing on Openstack, and setting up hadoop or spark clusters on Openstack.
Style and approachThis book takes a step by step approach teaching how to integrate, deploy and manage data using OpenStack Sahara. It will teach how the OpenStack Sahara is beneficial by simplifying the complexity of Hadoop configuration, deployment and maintenance.
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About the author
Omar Khedher is a systems and network engineer. He worked for a few years in cloud computing environments and was involved in several private cloud projects based on OpenStack. Leveraging his skills as a system administrator in virtualisation, storage, and networking, he works as cloud system engineer for a leading advertising technology company, Fyber, based in Berlin. Currently, together with several highly skilled professional teams in the market, they collaborate to build a high scalable infrastructure based on the cloud platform. Omar is also the author of another OpenStack book, Mastering OpenStack, Packt Publishing. He has authored also few academic publications based on new researches for the cloud performance improvement.
