Setting up a Storm Cluster

Setting up a Storm cluster · nathanmarz/storm Wiki · GitHub

1. Set up a Zookeeper cluster
2. Install dependencies on Nimbus and worker machines
3. Download and extract a Storm release to Nimbus and worker machines
4. Fill in mandatory configurations into storm.yaml
5. Launch daemons under supervision using "storm" script and a supervisor of your choice

Set up a Single Node Zookeeper Cluster

• Storm uses Zookeeper for coordinating the cluster. Zookeeper is not used for message passing, so the load Storm places on Zookeeper is quite low. Single node Zookeeper clusters should be sufficient for most cases.

I agreed with this statement. At least for the first time user.

Installing and Running ZooKeeper in Single Server Mode

• Download ZooKeeper from Apache ZooKeeper - Releases
• Create conf/zoo.cfg
• Start ZooKeeper Server: bin/zkServer.sh start