Installing the Ambari Server

You must complete the following steps in the following sub-sections to install Ambari. The ambari repositories can be accessed via the URLs from Accessing Acceldata Repositories. For any doubts, reach out to the Acceldata Support team.

Follow the instructions in the section for the operating system that runs your installation host.

• RHEL 8/9/RL 8/9
• Ubuntu 20/22

Use a command line editor to perform each instruction.

RHEL 8/9/RL 8/9

On a server host that has Internet access, use a command line editor to perform the following:

Steps

1. Log in to your host as root.
2. Add ambari.repo file with following content on all your cluster nodes.

File name: vi /etc/yum.repos.d/ambari.repo

#VERSION_NUMBER=2.7.9.2-1 

[ambari-2.7.9.2] 

async = 1

baseurl = https://mirror.odp.acceldata.dev/ODP/rhel/Ambari-2.7.9.2-1/ 

gpgcheck = 0

name = ambari Version - ambari-2.7.9.2-1

yum repolist ambari

repo id                     repo name                                 status

ambari                      ambari Version - ambari-2.7.9.2-1         enabled

3. Confirm that the repository is configured by checking the repo list.

yum repolist

4. You must see values similar to the following for Ambari repositories in the list. (Version values vary, depending on the installation).

repo id           repo              name                                                                           status 

ambari-2.7.9.1-1 ambari Version - ambari-2.7.9.2-1 12 epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64   11,387 

 repolist: 30,578

5. Next, install the Ambari bits using yum install ambari-server on your server node.
6. Enter y when prompted to confirm transaction and dependency checks.

Ambari Server by default uses an embedded PostgreSQL database. When you install the Ambari Server, the PostgreSQL packages and dependencies must be available for installation. These packages are typically available as part of your Operating System repositories. Confirm that you have the appropriate repositories available for the postgresql-server packages.

Ubuntu 20/22

On a server host that has the Internet access, use a command line editor to perform the following:

Steps

1. Add ambari.list file with following content on all your cluster nodes.

File name: sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ambari.list

deb <Repo_Base_URL> ODP main

deb <ODP-UTILS main URL> ODP-UTILS main

Example for Ubuntu 20:

deb https://mirror.odp.acceldata.dev/ODP/ubuntu20/Ambari-2.7.9.2-1/ ODP main 

deb https://mirror.odp.acceldata.dev/ODP/ubuntu20/Ambari-2.7.9.2-1/ ODP-UTILS main

2. After adding ambari.list, add the key.

wget -qO - <aws-bucket-repo-key-or-internal-serval-key> | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt update

For example:

wget -qO - https://mirror.odp.acceldata.dev/ODP/ubuntu20/3.3.6.2-1/my_public.key | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt update

You can get this my_public.key from Accessing Acceldata Repositories.

3. Next, install the Ambari bits on node that you want to make as Ambari-server.

apt-get install ambari-server

4. Confirm that Ambari packages downloaded successfully by checking the package name list.

apt-get install ambari-server