Sahara/ReleaseNotes/0.3

Elastic Data Processing (first release):

• MapReduce jobs could be created and launched using REST API or UI including Pig and Hive scripts in flexible, configurable manner;
• jobs could be stored in both Savanna internal DB and Swift;
• Swift supported as Data Source for MapReduce job input and output;

Hadoop provisioning:

• data locality is fully supported now - rack and 4-level node group awareness for both HDFS and Swift;
• Vanilla plugin supports parallel provisioning of latest Hadoop 1.2.1 clusters including Oozie and Hive that are needed for EDP;
• Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) plugin supports HDP 1.3.2 provisioning in parallel manner too;

Core Savanna:

• Extended network configuration including floating IPs pool configuration for node groups and auto assignment support;
• Neutron support (nova-network is supported too);
• all DB-related code is now moved to the “conductor”;

Python client:

• all core and EDP features are implemented and fully operational through the python-savannaclient;
• it supports both v2.0 and v3 APIs of Keystone REST API;

OpenStack Dashboard plugin:

• all core and EDP features are supported in UI;
• it uses python-savannaclient for interop now;

Others:

• supports building images with Oozie, Hive and optional MySQL for Vanilla plugin;
• one-click image building for Vanilla plugin;
• UI integration tests implemented using Selenium;
• Savanna could be installed in Fedora using yum;
• all four main Savanna subprojects are available now at pypi.