Apache ambari installation

Question

I'm trying to install ambari server + agents.
I have a doubt regarding ambari.

I tried to install ambari.
It always gets link with hortonwork

My doubt is that I have hadoop cluster of my own in Ubunu 16.0.
Will ambari only work with HDP or is it possible to also make it work with custom built clusters?

Or if possible please share me detailed descriptive documentation

Answer 1

It's not clear where you downloaded Ambari from, but it sounds like you used the Hortonworks version of it. Not directly from https://ambari.apache.org

Ambari works with the concept of stacks . Each stack has a set of services and components. HDP is such a stack, but there are others , or you can even define your own , so yes, you can manage your own Hadoop installation components, but that really would be not much different from what Hortonworks already provides.

Besides, the HDP services and components have been tested to work together more throughly than off the shelf Hadoop installation.

If you don't want HDP components, there is also the Apache Bigtop project that provides installation packs for many Hadoop related services

Ambari expects Java and Hadoop to be installed in a certain way. I'm not sure how easy it is to setup for an existing Hadoop install.