Since the most interesting Apache NiFi parts are coming from ASF [1] or Hortonworks [2], I thought to use CDH 5.7 and do the same, just to be curious. Here's now my 30 minutes playground, currently running in Googles Compute. On one of my playground nodes I installed Apache NiFi per mkdir /software && cd /software && wget http://mirror.23media.de/apache/nifi/0.6.1/nifi-0.6.1-bin.tar.gz && tar xvfz nifi-0.6.1-bin.tar.gz Then I've set only nifi.sensitive.props.key property in conf/nifi.properties to an easy to remember secret. The next bash /software/nifi-0.6.1/bin/nifi.sh install installs Apache NiFi as an service. After log in into Apache NiFi's WebUI, download and add the template [3] to Apache NiFi, move the template icon to the drawer, open it and edit the twitter credentials to fit your developer account. To use an schema-less SolR index (or Cloudera Search in CDH) I copied some example files over into a local directory: cp -r ...
Hey, I'm Alex. I founded X-Warp, Infinimesh, Infinite Devices, Scalytics and worked with Cloudera, E.On, Google, Evariant, and had the incredible luck to build products with outstanding people in my life, across the globe.