Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Apache Whirr
Organizations that run Hadoop usually set up their hardware infrastructure in-house.
However, cloud infrastructure providers such as Amazon and Rackspace allow users to set
up a complete cluster in the cloud. Apache Whirr provides the user with a set of libraries/
scripts that help users set up and manage a Hadoop cluster on the cloud. As an administrat-
or, you may be tasked with the responsibility of setting up a Hadoop cluster on infrastruc-
ture provided by a cloud service provider such as Amazon. If you are given this task,
Apache Whirr is the tool that you should be using.
