Manual Installation¶

This page describes the prerequisites and installation steps to deploy Pravega in a multi-node production environment.

Prerequisites¶

HDFS¶

Setup a HDFS storage cluster running HDFS version 2.7+. HDFS is used as Tier 2 Storage and must have sufficient capacity to store the contents of all the streams. The storage cluster is recommended to be run alongside Pravega on separate nodes.

Filesystem¶

If it is easier to mount a NFS share, then FILESYSTEM can be used in place of HDFS. The following configuration options are necessary to configure the FILESYSTEM as Long Term Storage. pravegaservice.storage.impl.name = FILESYSTEM filesystem.root = /mnt/tier2 where /mnt/tier2 is replaced with your nfs share and FILESYSTEM is a keyword.

Java¶

Install the latest Java 8 from java.oracle.com. Packages are available for all major operating systems.

Zookeeper¶

Pravega requires Zookeeper 3.6.1. At least 3 Zookeeper nodes are recommended for a quorum. No special configuration is required for Zookeeper but it is recommended to use a dedicated cluster for Pravega.

This specific version of Zookeeper can be downloaded from Apache at zookeeper-3.6.1.

For installing Zookeeper see the Getting Started Guide.

Bookkeeper¶

Pravega requires Bookkeeper 4.11.1. At least 3 Bookkeeper servers are recommended for a quorum.

This specific version of Bookkeeper can be downloaded from Apache at bookkeeper-server-4.11.1-bin.tar.gz.

For installing Bookkeeper see the Getting Started Guide. Some specific Pravega instructions are shown below. All sets are assumed to be run from the bookkeeper-server-4.11.1 directory.

Bookkeeper Configuration¶

In the file conf/bk_server.conf, the following configuration options should be implemented:

metadataServiceUri=zk://localhost:2181/pravega/bookkeeper/ledgers

# Alternatively specify a different path to the storage for /bk
journalDirectory=/bk/journal
ledgerDirectories=/bk/ledgers
indexDirectories=/bk/index

Initializing Zookeeper paths¶

The following paths need to be created in Zookeeper. Open the zookeeper-3.6.1 directory on the Zookeeper servers and run the following paths:

bin/zkCli.sh -server $ZK_URL create /pravega
bin/zkCli.sh -server $ZK_URL create /pravega/bookkeeper

Replace <$ZK_URL> with the IP address of the Zookeeper nodes.

Running Bookkeeper¶

The bookie needs the following formatting before starting it:

bin/bookkeeper shell metaformat -nonInteractive

Start the bookie as mentioned below:

bin/bookkeeper bookie

Running Bookkeeper with encryption enabled¶

Apache BookKeeper can be deployed with TLS enabled. Details can be found here.

Installing Pravega¶

For non-production systems, the containers can be used that are provided by the Docker installation to run non-production HDFS, Zookeeper or Bookkeeper.

The following two key components of Pravega needs to be run:

Controller: The Control plane for Pravega. Installation requires at least one Controller. (Two or more are recommended for HA).
Segment Store: The Storage node for Pravega. Installation requires at least one Segment Store.

Before we start, the latest Pravega release needs to be downloaded from the GitHub Releases page.

Recommendations¶

For a simple 3 node cluster, the following table depicts on layout of the services:

	Node 1	Node 2	Node 3
Zookeeper	X	X	X
Bookkeeper	X	X	X
Pravega Controller	X	X
Pravega Segment Store	X	X	X

All Nodes¶

On each node, extract the distribution package to the desired directory as follows:

tar xfvz pravega-<version>.tgz
cd pravega-<version>

Installation of the Controller¶

The controller can be run by using the following command. Replace <zk-ip> with the IP address of the Zookeeper nodes in the following command:

ZK_URL=<zk-ip>:2181 bin/pravega-controller

Instead specifying the <zk-ip> on every startup, we can edit the conf/controller.conf file and change the zk url as follows:

    zk {
      url = "<zk-ip>:2181"
...
    }

Then run the controller with the following command:

bin/pravega-controller

Installation of the Segment Store¶

In the file conf/config.properties, make the following changes as mentioned: Replace <zk-ip>, <controller-ip> and <hdfs-ip> with the IPs of the respective services.

pravegaservice.zk.connect.uri=<zk-ip>:2181
bookkeeper.zk.connect.uri=<zk-ip>:2181
autoScale.controller.connect.uri=tcp://<controller-ip>:9090

# Settings required for HDFS
hdfs.connect.uri=<hdfs-ip>:8020

After making the configuration changes, the segment store can be run using the following command:

bin/pravega-segmentstore

Running a Pravega Cluster with Security enabled¶

Steps for securing a distributed mode cluster can be found here.

For detailed information about security configuration parameters for Controller) and Segment Store, see [this]((../security/pravega-security-configurations.md) document.