bash-emr

This is a simple set of bash functions for manipulating a Amazon Elastic MapReduce clusters.

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Install

You must install the AWS Command Line Interface.

You then must setup an emr_defaults.json file with your default emrsettings. Use the emr_defaults_sample.json as a starting point.

export EMR_DEFAULTS_JSON=/<mypath>/bash-emr/bash-emr/emr_defaults.json

. /<mypath>/bash-emr/setenv.sh

Finally, you must source the setenv.sh file (in your .bash_profile)

. setenv.sh

Usage

To find an existing cluster:

emrlist

To attach to a cluster, using a flow id:

emrset <flow id>	

To get the current flow id:

emrset

To remotely login to the master node of the current flow id:

emrlogin

To remotely login with just the ip address:

emrlogin <ip address>	

Note that most commands will take the cluster id or an ip address to override the default cluster id set using emrset.

Reference

emr

This is shorthand for calling from the shell.

emr <some args>

emrset

When you start a flow on EMR, you will be given a flow id. Use emrset to set the flow id for use by many of the other commands

emrset <flow id>

Calling emrset without the id returns the current flow id.

emrlist

Will return the list of recent clusters

emractive

Will return the list of clusters that in an active state

emrhost

Will return the current master node on the EMR cluster.

emrlogin

Will remotely login to the master node.

emrstat

Will return the current status of a given running flow.

emrterminate

Will terminate your remote EMR cluster.

emrscreen

Will launch screen on the master node. Screen must be already installed. If a screen instance is already running, this command will automatically attach.

emrtail

Will automatically 'tail' the current flow step logs.

emrtail 2

Without a step number, a list of available steps will be displayed.

emrproxy

Will create a local SOCKS proxy to the master node. This is useful for accessing the JobTracker and NameNode. You must install FoxyProxy in FireFox for this to work best.

emrscp

Will scp a given file to the remote master node.

emrscp my-hadoop-app.jar

This is useful if you leave your EMR cluster running and want to manually spawn jobs from emrlogin or emrscreen.

emrscplocal

Will copy the given file or folder from the remote master node to a local path

emrscplocal file.on.master.txt ~/myfolder/

emrconf

Will scp all conf/*-site.xml files from the master node into the given directory.

emrconf local-conf

This is useful if you leave your EMR cluster running on a AWS VPC and wish to run Hadoop jobs from a local shell.