Palette Insight Architecture

Palette Greenplum Installer

IMPORTANT NOTE

This repo uses Git Large File Storage. This means you need to install it in order to clone all the files of this repo successfully.

What is Palette Greenplum Installer?

The purpose of this repository to ease the installation of the Greenplum Database by providing a RPM package.

How do I set up Palette Greenplum Installer?

Packaging

To build the package you may use the build.sh:

export TRAVIS_BUILD_NUMBER=123
./build.sh

The repository contains the version greenplum-db-4.3.7.3-build-2-RHEL5-x86_64 but supports others too.

Installation

Install it using either yum or rpm.

NOTE The Greenplum Shell Ansible Playbook can be used to provision a computer before the RPM can be installed.

The following process is executed by the installer:

• checks the /data directory (this will be used to store the database storage):
  • it should exist
  • a disk should be mounted with 1 TB of free diskspace
  • it should be formated with XFS filesystem
• creates the gpadmin user
• sets the blocksize
• disables Transparent Huge Pages
• overrides the SELinux flag that disallows httpd to connect to the go process
• tunes some greenplum configuration
• enables remote and local access
• enables port 5432 on firewall
• makes greenplum a service

Is Palette Greenplum Installer supported?

Palette Greenplum Installer is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 license. For professional support please contact developers@palette-software.com

Any bugs discovered should be filed in the Palette Greenplum Installer Git issue tracker or contribution is more than welcome.