Caching Proxy - Installation and Configuration
Setting up a Hadoop cluster is all easy with a bit of familiarity with system and network administration. It's all interesting, the only frustrating thing is the downloading of the patches after the installation of the OS and the downloading of the packages for the softwares on top of OS. The downloads can go to all the way close to a GB also, which might take a couple of minutes to hours based on the internet bandwidth. Here is where caching tools really help. They will cache the downloaded packages to one of the designated local machine (lets call it the cache server) and the other machines can point to the cache server to get the packages. This way the packages are downloaded from the internet for the first time and from then on the local cache server will be used for getting the packages. This approach will not only save the network bandwidth, but will also make the whole installation process faster. For debian systems, apt-cacher-ng is designed to cache the packages and...