Friday, October 08, 2010

Step by step Installation guide: Linkedin Azkaban as a webapp on redhat linux tomcat

Before you start, make sure you have tomcat installed and running with "service status tomcat5".
  • download the latest azkaban tarball to /opt at http://github.com/downloads/azkaban/azkaban/azkaban-0.04.tar.gz
  • tar -xvf azkaban-0.04.tar.gz
  • copy azkaban-0.04/dist/war/azkaban.war /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps
  • stop tomcat service: service tomcat5 stop
  • append "AZKABAN_HOME="/opt/azkaban-0.04" into /etc/sysconfig/tomcat5
  • start tomcat service: service tomcat
wait for a couple of minus, you should get azkaban running at http://your_host_name:port/azkaban/