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Infrastructure engineers and data scientists looking for a comprehensive packaging, testing, and configuration solution for their projects

About Apache Bigtop

Bigtop is an Apache Foundation project for Infrastructure Engineers and Data Scientists looking for comprehensive packaging, testing, and configuration of the leading open source big data components. Bigtop supports a wide range of components/projects, including, but not limited to, Hadoop, HBase and Spark. Bigtop packages Hadoop RPMs and DEBs, so that you can manage and maintain your Hadoop cluster. Bigtop provides an integrated smoke testing framework, alongside a suite of over 50 test files. Bigtop provides vagrant recipes, raw images, and (work-in-progress) docker recipes for deploying Hadoop from zero. Bigtop support many Operating Systems, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE and many others. Bigtop includes tools and a framework for testing at various levels (packaging, platform, runtime, etc.) for both initial deployments as well as upgrade scenarios for the entire data platform, not just the individual components.

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