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Alluxio DC/OS framework is an automated service that makes it easy to deploy and manage Alluxio on Mesosphere DC/OS. The Alluxio DC/OS frameworks are versioned with an a.b.c-x.y.z format, where a.b.c is the version of the service management layer and x.y.z indicates the version of Alluxio. For instance, 2.3.0-2.4.0-1.0 indicates version 2.3.0 of the service management layer and version 2.4.0-1.0 of Alluxio.

Alluxio DC/OS v2.3.0-2.4.0-1.0

Compatible Alluxio Version(s): v2.4.0-1.0

Minimum Compatible DC/OS Version(s): v1.10.0

Prerequisites

  • A DC/OS cluster
  • A Docker registry on the DC/OS cluster (optional)

For instructions on how to setup a DC/OS cluster, visit the Mesosphere website. Note that a Docker registry is only required to host custom images, such as in the case for hosting a custom Spark image embedded with the Alluxio client library.

Before installing Alluxio on a DC/OS cluster, verify that the DC/OS hosts satisfy the following assumptions:

  • Bash shell is available
  • /dev/shm is a tmpfs location and the Alluxio service has read and write access. This location is used by the Alluxio workers as the primary storge tier.
  • Alluxio service is able to create /tmp/domain/<service-name>; where <service-name> is the service name for any given Alluxio instance on DC/OS. This location is used to enable domain socket based short circuit I/O to write data to local Alluxio storage through a worker process instead of the client.
  • If using KERBEROS authentication mode or connecting to secure HDFS, krb5 libraries are pre-installed on the hosts.
  • If building Alluxio client Docker images, hosts have access to a Docker registry containing base images.

Install and Customize

Alluxio can be installed either using the DC/OS CLI or Web UI. This section provides instructions for both.

After obtaining an Alluxio Enterprise Edition license, base64 encode the license. The encoded license will be required in following steps.

# Assuming license file is named alluxio-enterprise-license.json
$ cat alluxio-enterprise-license.json | base64 | tr -d "\n"

Install using CLI

To install Alluxio using DC/OS CLI, first create a configuration file as follows:

tee alluxio-config.json  <<-'EOF'
{
  "service": {
    "name": "alluxio-enterprise",
    "alluxio-distribution": "all",
    "license": "<license>",
    "log-level": "INFO",
    "ufs-address": "<under-storage-address>",
    "user": "root",
    "worker-count": 1
  }
}
EOF

Note: Additional configuration may be required for the choice of under storage (look here). In case not using the default, update the configuration service.alluxio-distribution.

Once the configuration is created, Alluxio can be installed as follows:

$ dcos package install --yes --options=alluxio-config.json alluxio-enterprise

Install using Web UI

  1. Find alluxio-enterprise in the DC/OS Catalog and click Review & Run.
  2. Enter the base64 encoded license obtained previously.
  3. Update the ufs-address field.
  4. Review configuration and install.

Note: Additional configuration may be required for the choice of under storage (look here).

Check Deployment Status

You can check the Alluxio deployment status in the DC/OS Web UI by visiting Services > alluxio-enterprise > Instances. Once the cluster is ready for use, you will see a tasks named master-<i>-node, master-<i>-job-node, worker-<j>-node aand worker-<j>-job-node with status Running; where <i> is the master instance index and <j> is the worker instance index.

Under Storage Configuration

HDFS

To configure HDFS as under storage for Alluxio, configure the following property if a single name node is used:

  "service": {
    "ufs-address": "hdfs://<name-node>:<port>/<path>"
  },
  "hdfs": {
    "root-version": "<hdfs-version>"
  }

For HDFS HA, replace the single name node configuration with name service address and configure an additional endpoint configuration. The endpoint URL is the prefix for core-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml.

  "service": {
    "ufs-address": "hdfs://<name-service>/<path>"
  },
  "hdfs": {
    "endpoint": "http://<endpoint-hostname>/<path>"
  }

To put the Alluxio journal on HDFS, add the following properties:

 "master": {
    "journal-folder": "hdfs://<name-node-or-service>/<path>"
  },
  ...
  "hdfs": {
    "journal-version": "<hdfs-version>"
  },

S3A

Access credentials must be provided to configure an Amazon S3 bucket as under storage. Add the following configuration:

  "service": {
    "ufs-address": "s3a://<bucket>/<folder>"
  },
  "s3a": {
    "aws-access-key": "<access-key>",
    "aws-secret-key": "<secret-key>"
  }

Additional Features

High Availability Mode

To make Alluxio run in HA / fault tolerant mode, deploy at least two Alluxio master nodes, configure zookeeper address and a shared journal location (e.g., HDFS or NFS):

  "service": {
    "master-count": 3,
  },
  "master": {
    "journal-folder": "hdfs://hdfs/journal"
  },
  "zookeeper": {
    "enabled": true,
    "address": "zk-1.zk:2181,zk-2.zk:2181,zk-3.zk:2181"
  }

Kerberos Security

  • Obtain a keytab. The following example uses a keytab with principal hdfs/alluxio@ALLUXIO.COM. In this example, it is assumed that all the Alluxio servers use a shared Kerberos service principal, with a unified instance name alluxio.

  • Create an Enterprise DC/OS secret allowing access to <service-name>. The default service name is alluxio-enterprise.

base64 -i hdfs.keytab > hdfs.keytab.base64-encoded
dcos security secrets create <service-name>/__dcos_base64__alluxio-keytab -f hdfs.keytab.base64-encoded

dcos security secrets create <service-name>/krb5-conf -f krb5.conf

Note: The keytab is base64 encoded before adding it to the secret store.

  • Add the following properties to configure the Alluxio service:
  "security": {
    "authentication-type": "KERBEROS",
    "authorization-permission-enabled": true,
    "keytab-secret": "<service-name>/__dcos_base64__alluxio-keytab",
    "kerberos-primary": "hdfs",
    "kerberos-instance": "alluxio",
    "kerberos-realm": "ALLUXIO.COM",
    "krb5-secret": "alluxio-enterprise/krb5-conf"
  }

Also make sure the HDFS endpoint is configured to fetch hdfs-site.xml and core-site.xml.

REST API

First, make sure the command line tools for Alluxio is installed.

dcos package install alluxio-enterprise --cli

To use Alluxio REST API, deploy the Alluxio Proxy server:

dcos alluxio-enterprise plan start proxy

Once deployed, try out a few operations using the REST API:

  • Create a directory /hello/world 
    curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"recursive":"true"}' http://proxy-0-node.alluxio-enterprise.mesos:19997/api/v1/paths//hello/world/create-directory
  • List a directory 
    curl -v -X POST http://proxy-0-node.alluxio-enterprise.mesos:19997/api/v1/paths//hello/list-status

Tiered Storage

The default configuration will setup Alluxio with memory storage only. You can customize it to include more than one tier of storage:

  "worker": {
    "mem-tier-enabled": true,
    "mem-ramdisk": 2048,
    "disk-tier-1-enabled": true,
    "disk-tier-1-type": "ROOT",
    "disk-tier-1-size": 8192
  }

The above example will request 8GB of disk storage per worker in addition to 2GB of memory storage.

Note that currently configuring Alluxio to request a specific type (HDD/SSD) of storage is not supported. However, DC/OS disk type can be specified to allocate disk space on either ROOT or MOUNT volumes.

Advanced Configuration

  • Arbitrary configuration can be specified using advanced.extra-java-opts. These will override any existing properties in alluxio-site.properties rendered using the config json.

  • Custom resources can be downloaded into the sandbox using advanced.custom-resources. This feature can be used to download configurations for Multi-HDFS as well as multiple keytabs in case separate server and under storage principals are used.

    "advanced": {
  "extra-java-opts": "-Dalluxio.property1=common1 -Dalluxio.property2=common2",
  "custom-resources": "custom_file1;http://<hostname>/<file1> custom_file2;http://<hostname>/<file2>"
}

Validate Deployment

To test the cluster, build the Alluxio client Docker image. Omit the publish URL to not publish to a registry.

$ dcos package install alluxio-enterprise --cli

$ dcos alluxio-enterprise plan start build-cli -p DOCKER_PUBLISH_URL=<registry-hostname>:<registry-port> -p DOCKER_ALLUXIO_CLIENT_BASE=openjdk:8-jre

If the Docker image was published to a registry, access the image on any DC/OS node.

dcos node ssh --master-proxy --leader --user=centos
sudo docker run -it --net=host <registry-hostname>:<registry-port>/alluxio/aee /bin/bash

If not published, the docker image aee can be accessed on the node that built the image. To identify the node IP, look at the service UI which ran a task named docker-alluxio.

$ dcos node # Note mesos id for above IP
$ dcos node ssh --master-proxy --mesos-id <mesos-id> --user=centos
$ sudo docker run -it --net=host aee /bin/bash

From within the docker container aee, the Alluxio CLI can be accessed to validate the deployment.

$ ./bin/alluxio runTests
$ ./bin/alluxio fs ls /

Now that Alluxio is running on your DC/OS cluster, you could choose to run Spark on Alluxio.