Apache Whirr 0.7.0 has been released
From Patrick Hunt at Cloudera:
Apache Whirr release 0.7.0 is now available. It includes changes covering over 50 issues, four of which were considered blockers. Whirr is a tool for quickly starting and managing clusters running on cloud services like Amazon EC2. This is the first Whirr release as a top level Apache project (previously releases were under the auspices of the Incubator). In addition to improving overall stability some of the highlights are described below:
Support for Apache Mahout as a deployable component is new in 0.7.0. Mahout is a scalable machine learning library implemented on top of Apache Hadoop.
- WHIRR-384 – Add Mahout as a service
- WHIRR-49 – Allow Whirr to use Chef for configuration management
- WHIRR-258 – Add Ganglia as a service
- WHIRR-385 – Implement support for using nodeless, masterless Puppet to provision and run scripts
Whirr 0.7.0 will be included in a scheduled update to CDH4.
Getting Involved
The Apache Whirr project is working on a number of new features. The How To Contribute page is a great place to start if you’re interested in getting involved as a developer.
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