Accumulo and Docker

If you want to experiment with BigData and Accumulo, then you can use docker to build an image and run a single node instance using this docker project.

In that container, you will have a single instance of Zookeeper, YARN, HDFS and Accumulo. You can 'hadoop fs -put files' in HDFS, run MapReduce jobs and start an Accumulo interactive shell.

There was an issue with setting the vm.swappiness in the docker container directly where it was not taking effect, and the only way I could make it stick, was to set it in the docker daemon environment, in such that it is "inherited" (not sure if this is the correct term) by the container.

This project was an experiment for me in the hot topic of container based applications using docker, and as a way to share with colleagues a common running environment for some upcoming Accumulo based projects.

And so far it has been a success :-) You can pull the image using:

docker pull mraad/accumulo

And like usual, all the source code is here.