Apache Flume is a distributed and reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data from different sources to multiple destinations. This tutorial will guide you on how to install Flume on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before you start installing Flume, you need to make sure that Java is installed on your system. To install Java, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo apk add openjdk8-jre
This will install Java on your Alpine Linux Latest system.
Once Java is installed, proceed to download and install Flume. To download Flume, run the following command:
wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/flume/1.9.0/apache-flume-1.9.0-bin.tar.gz
This will download the Flume binary tarball. Next, decompress the tarball using the following command:
tar -xzf apache-flume-1.9.0-bin.tar.gz
This will extract the contents of the tarball to a directory named apache-flume-1.9.0-bin. Finally, move the extracted folder to the /usr/local directory using the following command:
sudo mv apache-flume-1.9.0-bin /usr/local/
After installing Flume, set up the environment variables that Flume requires to run. To do this, edit the ~/.bashrc file and add the following lines at the end of the file:
export FLUME_HOME=/usr/local/apache-flume-1.9.0-bin
export PATH=$PATH:$FLUME_HOME/bin
Save the changes and reload the ~/.bashrc file by running the following command:
source ~/.bashrc
To verify that Flume is installed correctly on your system, run the following command:
flume-ng version
This should display the version of Flume installed on your system.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Flume on your Alpine Linux Latest system. You can now use Flume to collect, aggregate, and move your log data to multiple destinations.
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