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disadvantages of Parcels in cloudera


I have to differentiate between Cloudera parcel process and writing a cook book or a reciepe of a Chef for installation of packages in a cluster.

So i'm looking for advantages and disadvantage between Parcel over Chef or Vice versa.


Solution

  • If you are using Cloudera Manager, parcels allow you to install/update CDH on your cluster(s) in its entirety via a single package (or, install add-on components such as betas and Cloudera Labs releases). From the docs:

    Parcels can only be installed via CM, so if you're not a CM user, your question is an academic one. If you are a CM user, you can choose to use either parcels (which is certainly easier) or a packages-based approach via Chef or Puppet (not as easy, but some people prefer it nonetheless).