Presto Admin – Is it Worth Using?

I generally deploy Presto clusters using packer and terraform.  Packer builds an image for me with the target presto distribution, some utility scripts, ha proxy (to get multiple coordinators acting in HA), etc.

I kept noticing this presto-admin project though: https://github.com/prestosql/presto-admin.  It allows you to quickly/easily deploy clusters from a central node, and it will handle the coordinator, workers, catalogs, and everything.  That sounds pretty cool.

Advance disclaimer – after I built this, I decided not to use it.  This was because it seems to just deploy a single coordinator and worker set.  For an HA setup, I need multiple coordinators, a load balancer, and workers/users pointing at the load balancer.  So, it’s just not the right fit for me.

Presto Admin – Build

In any case, I did go through the motions of building this – because I could not find a source release.  Fortunately, it’s pretty easy on Centos 7.x (basically RHEL 7.x):

# Download and unzip.
wget https://github.com/prestosql/presto-admin/archive/2.7.tar.gz
tar -xvzf 2.7.tar.gz

# Install pip/etc.
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install python-pip
sudo yum install python-wheel

# Run make file and build web installer.
make dist

After this, just go into the dist folder and find prestoadmin-2.7-online.tar.gz.

I hope this saves you some time; I wasted around 20 minutes trying to find the dist online for download (which I never did).