This is the slide deck for the talk I gave at SouthWest Big Data (UK) and Hadoop Summit EMEA 2013. Video is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw-V7-T3GmE

1. Grid Operations
Hadoop Operations at LinkedIn
Allen Wittenauer
Grid Computing Architect
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2. “Hadoop is not a developer problem;
it’s an operations problem.”
-- Hadoop vendor ex-employee
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4. § August 2009
– 20 Nodes in 1 grid
– Apache Hadoop 0.20.0
– No configuration management
– No monitoring
– No security
– Free for all, including random mafia hits on running jobs
– FIFO Scheduling
– ~20 users
– 20 tasks per node
– Solaris
– No operational support
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6. How We Fixed This
(In Chronological Order)
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7. Year One
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8. § Dropped task count
– 10 mappers => 7 mappers
– 10 reducers => 5 reducers
§ Reworked ETL
– hourlies => dailies
– Re-ordered to take advantage of compression
§ 10x storage improvement
– Sample impact on one job (not workflow!):
§ 80,000 map tasks => 2,000 map tasks
§ Run time cut in half
§ Optimize work flows/culture shift
§ More task time, less tasks
§ Production review to reinforce good behavio(u)r
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9. § Switched to Capacity Scheduler 5% ETL Tasks
– FIFO is terrible 15% Fast Queue:
– Fair Share only viable for small tasks - Task Time < 15 Minutes
- Job Time < 1 Hour
– Enforced SLAs via custom patch
- Slot stealing from "Slow" Queue
§ Submitted Jar Size Limit
80% Slow Queue:
– Encourage distributed cache usage - Job Time < 24 Hours
– Enforced limit via custom patch - Up to 80% of slots
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10. § Benchmarking
– Use production code not TeraSort!
Old Node: New Node:
- 2 Rack Units - 1 Rack Unit
- 2 CPUs - 2 CPUs
- 16 GB - 24 or 32 GB
- 8 x 1 TB SATA - 6 x 2 TB SATA
- 1 x 2 gb NIC - 1 x 1 gb NIC
§ Cut cost per unit in half
§ 2x nodes per rack
§ Extra RAM
– buffering
– bus speed
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12. Year Two
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14. § DataNode disk partitioning
– Separate file systems for different purposes
20 GB 200 GB
HDFS
/, ... MR
...
5GB 200 GB
HDFS
Swap MR
– Mount options: noatime, commit=30, data=writeback
§ NN, JT, etc
– No “special hardware” == use SW RAID
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15. LDAP Master Multi
LDAP Master
+ Master +
Replication
KDC Master KDC
LDAP/KDC LDAP/KDC
Slaves Slaves
username, uid username, uid
group name, gid group name, gid
netgroup, sudoers netgroup, sudoers
nscd nscd
Client Node Client Node
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17. Host bcfg2 Server
Group1,
Group2,
... Group1 -> Svc1, Svc2, ...
bcfg2
Group2 -> Svc1, Svc3, ...
client Svc1+
Group3 -> Svc4, Svc5, ...
Svc2+
Svc3
Content
§ Service Bundle
– RPMs, config files, etc
– Conflict resolution
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18. § Different RPM names + different install locations = pre-deploy-ability:
Object RPM Name File Path
Hadoop 1.0.4-p3 Binaries hadoop-1043-bin-1.0.4-3 /dir/hadoop-1.0.4-p3
Grid Config for 1.0.4-p3 gridname-1043- /dir/grid-conf-1.0.4-p3
hadoopconf-1.0.4.3-1
Hadoop 1.1.2-p1 Binaries hadoop-1121-bin-1.1.2.1-1 /dir/hadoop-1.1.2-p1
Grid Config for 1.1.2-p1 gridname-1043- /dir/grid-conf-1.1.2-p1
hadoopconf-1.0.4.3-1
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19. Year Three+
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20. Corp IT
Grid Realm
Active Directory krbtgt/GRID@CORP
@GRID
@CORP
Password
krbtgt/host@GRID
krbtgt/service@GRID
krbtgt/user@CORP Hadoop
krbtgt/GRID@CORP
Services
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21. Many months moving to secure Apache Hadoop...
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24. § March 2013
– 5000 Nodes in ~10 grids
– Apache Hadoop 1.0.4 + custom patches
– Full configuration management
– Full monitoring
– Security
– Capacity scheduler with SLA
– ~700 users
– 12 tasks per node
– Linux
– Five dedicated operations staff members
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26. Future Work
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27. Is ‘pure Hadoop’ the right
tool for all of our workloads?
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28. YARN PBS
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30. § More on LinkedIn Hadoop Performance:
– http://www.slideshare.net/allenwittenauer/2012-lihadoopperf
§ LinkedIn Data Analytics:
– http://data.linkedin.com/
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