apache flume hdfs #7

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Description

Collect, aggregate, and move large amounts of data into HDFS.

Overview

Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. It uses a simple extensible data model that allows for online analytic application. Learn more at flume.apache.org.

This charm provides a Flume agent designed to ingest events into the shared filesystem (HDFS) of a connected Hadoop cluster. It is meant to relate to other Flume agents such as apache-flume-syslog and apache-flume-twitter.

Deploying

This charm requires Juju 2.0 or greater. If Juju is not yet set up, please follow the getting-started instructions prior to deploying this charm.

This charm is intended to be deployed via one of the apache bigtop bundles. For example:

juju deploy hadoop-processing

This will deploy an Apache Bigtop Hadoop cluster. More information about this deployment can be found in the bundle readme.

Now add Flume-HDFS and relate it to the cluster via the hadoop-plugin:

juju deploy apache-flume-hdfs flume-hdfs
juju add-relation flume-hdfs plugin

The deployment at this stage isn't very exciting, as the flume-hdfs service is waiting for other Flume agents to connect and send data. You'll probably want to check out apache-flume-syslog or apache-flume-kafka to provide additional functionality for this deployment.

When flume-hdfs receives data, it is stored in a /user/flume/<event_dir> HDFS subdirectory (configured by the connected Flume charm). You can quickly verify the data written to HDFS using the command line. SSH to the flume-hdfs unit, locate an event, and cat it:

juju ssh flume-hdfs/0
hdfs dfs -ls /user/flume/<event_dir>               # <-- find a date
hdfs dfs -ls /user/flume/<event_dir>/<yyyy-mm-dd>  # <-- find an event
hdfs dfs -cat /user/flume/<event_dir>/<yyyy-mm-dd>/FlumeData.<id>

This process works well for data serialized in text format (the default). For data serialized in avro format, you'll need to copy the file locally and use the dfs -text command. For example, replace the dfs -cat command from above with the following to view files stored in avro format:

hdfs dfs -copyToLocal /user/flume/<event_dir>/<yyyy-mm-dd>/FlumeData.<id> /home/ubuntu/myFile.txt
hdfs dfs -text file:///home/ubuntu/myFile.txt

Network-Restricted Environments

Charms can be deployed in environments with limited network access. To deploy in this environment, configure a Juju model with appropriate proxy and/or mirror options. See Configuring Models for more information.

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Configuration

channel_capacity
(string) The maximum number of events stored in the channel.
1000
channel_transaction_capacity
(string) The maximum number of events the channel will take from a source or give to a sink per transaction.
100
dfs_replication
(int) The DFS replication value. The default (3) is the same default as the Namenode charm, but it may be overriden for this application.
3
protocol
(string) Ingestion protocol for the agent source. Currently only 'avro' is supported.
avro
resources_mirror
(string) URL from which to fetch resources (e.g., Flume binaries) instead of S3
roll_count
(int) Number of events written to file before it is rolled. A value of 0 (the default) means never roll based on number of events.
roll_interval
(int) Number of seconds to wait before rolling the current file. Default will roll the file after 5 minutes. A value of 0 means never roll based on a time interval.
300
roll_size
(string) File size to trigger roll, in bytes. Default will roll the file once it reaches 10 MB. A value of 0 means never roll based on file size.
10000000
sink_compression
(string) Compression codec for the agent sink. An empty value will write events to HDFS uncompressed. You may specify 'snappy' here to compress written events using the snappy codec.
sink_serializer
(string) Specify the serializer used when the sink writes to HDFS. Either 'avro_event' or 'text' are supported.
text
source_port
(int) Port on which the agent source is listening.
4141