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by mindcrime 3737 days ago
Second the motion. Ambari is actually one of the key elements of the tech stack we're using for our service. With the "Blueprints" feature and the REST API, it's a really convenient way to automate the provisioning of Spark/Hadoop clusters.

Even better, Ambari isn't actually limited to installing just Hadoop/Spark, etc. In principle, you could extend it to take care of installing pretty much anything.