Ambari Management Packs are a new convenient way to integrate various services to the Ambari stack. As an example in this post we are using the Solr service mpack to install HDP on top of a newly installed cluster.

The HDP search mpack is available on the Hortonworks public repository for download. A mpack essentially is tar balls containing a mpack.json file specification and related binaries. Continue reading “Installing HDP Search with Ambari” →