giraph charm approved

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 04/03/17 00:01, Antonio Rosales wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Panagiotis Liakos <p.liakos at di.uoa.gr> wrote:
>> Dear Mark,
>>
>> Thank you! I agree that deploying Giraph easily can be extremely
>> beneficial for researchers and software engineers as it will enable
>> them to focus on developing algorithms instead of wasting time to
>> set-up their infrastructure.
> Completely agree, we should be working as a community to share and
> distill best practices of _operating_ software into repeatable
> reusable components. This is what we are aiming at for with Juju and
> Charms.  In the Big Data space of charms there is core Hadoop, Spark,
> and Kafka bundles that enable developers to easily extend the core
> pieces needed with software like Giraph so folks can focus on the
> science.

Conjure-up now supports optional extensions to its base bundles ('spells').

So I think it would make sense to have Giraph as such an extension for
the basic Hadoop-Processing spell.

Take a look at that and see if it's useful.

Mark