cm_ansible

create / delete a Cloudera cluster

This is an Ansible module that allows to create and delete a Cloudera cluster.

Prerequisites

• cm-api module to interact with Cloudera Manager: https://cloudera.github.io/cm_api

How to use it

Being a custom Ansible module, it can be used in a couple of different ways:

• put the file in a library folder under the structure of your cookbook (like in this example playbook)
• have ANSIBLE_LIBRARY environment variable to point to the folder where the module resides

Example run:

• Customize the cluster settings via the cloudera.yml file.

• Run:

  ansible-playbook -i inventory/localhost cloudera.yml