[WIP] Scigility-DEV branch

[lhoss]

This PR

• is not meant to be merged (to master)
• is for documentary purposes
• it contains additional features, not (yet) accepted/merged in the official/upstream repository (https://github.com/hortonworks )
• (those are) used by our customized HDP deployment in https://github.com/scigility/platform-setup/blob/master/ansible/README_HDP_cluster_deployment.md

Status 2019-05-20

• Great news: Last week all our PRs were merged upstream (including some from another contributor Alex)
  • except 1 PR still open, only new extra commit in this branch (currently): configurable mpack base urls (new optional vars: hdf_mpack_base_url, solr_mpack_base_url) hortonworks/ansible-hortonworks#133

Status 2018-11-13

This branch contains the latest upstream master changes, PLUS additional PRs:

• Configurable local directories of all components and more hortonworks/ansible-hortonworks#75
• customizable aws instance and volume tags hortonworks/ansible-hortonworks#100
  Note: Since today (2018-11-13), we no longer require any custom hacks, thanks to a fixed issue (I had reported time ago): build_aws should not have to load group_vars or other vars using 'vars_files' hortonworks/ansible-hortonworks#56

Status 2019-05...

Many more PRs were merged in the mean-time

Status 2019-09-02

Branch is up2date with the latest upstream master PRs, incl. 2 new unmerged PRs:

• Configuring Ambari for Non-Root user hortonworks/ansible-hortonworks#167: Configuring Ambari for Non-Root user
• use AWS inventory plugin (instead of deprecated ec2.py inventory 'script') hortonworks/ansible-hortonworks#168: use AWS inventory plugin (instead of deprecated ec2.py inventory 'script')

Status 2020-07-03

Branch is up2date with the latest (upstream) master branch, and still incl. the same 2 unmerged PRs (167,168), from previous status update