Flume is a distributed data streaming platform used to collect, ingest, and transfer large data sets from various sources to various destinations like Hadoop, HBase, and Amazon S3.
In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Flume on POP! OS Latest.
Before installing Flume, you need to fulfill the following requirements:
Flume requires Java 8 or higher to be installed on your system. If you don't have Java installed, you can install it using the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install default-jdk
To verify the installation, run the following command to check the Java version:
java -version
If everything is installed correctly, you should see the Java version installed on your system.
Flume is distributed as a source code package. You need to download it from the Apache Flume website. As we are going to install the latest version, you can download it using the following command:
wget https://downloads.apache.org/flume/1.9.0/apache-flume-1.9.0-src.tar.gz
Once the download is complete, extract the package:
tar -xzf apache-flume-1.9.0-src.tar.gz
You can move the extracted package to the /opt directory:
sudo mv apache-flume-1.9.0-src /opt/flume
Flume's configuration files are located in the conf directory inside the Flume home directory. Copy the default configuration file to the conf directory:
cd /opt/flume/conf
cp flume-conf.properties.template flume.conf
Next, open the flume.conf file and edit the following settings:
# Name the components on this agent
agent.sources =...
agent.channels =...
agent.sinks =...
# For each source, channel, and sink, set
# standard properties.
...
# Name the components on this agent
agent.sources = mysource
agent.channels =...
agent.sinks =...
# For each source, channel, and sink, set
# standard properties.
...
# Describe/configure the source
agent.sources.mysource.type =...
...
# Name the components on this agent
agent.sources = mysource
agent.channels = mychannel
agent.sinks = mysink
# For each source, channel, and sink, set
# standard properties.
...
# Describe/configure the source
agent.sources.mysource.type =...
...
# Describe the sink
agent.sinks.mysink.type = ...
...
# Name the components on this agent
agent.sources = mysource
agent.channels = mychannel
agent.sinks = mysink
# For each source, channel, and sink, set
# standard properties.
...
# Describe/configure the source
agent.sources.mysource.type =...
...
# Describe the sink
agent.sinks.mysink.type = ...
...
# Describe/configure the channel
agent.channels.mychannel.type = ...
...
Make sure to replace myagent, mysource, mychannel, and mysink with your preferred names.
To start Flume, run the following command:
cd /opt/flume/
bin/flume-ng agent --conf-file /opt/flume/conf/flume.conf --name myagent -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console
This command starts the Flume agent using the configuration file you just edited. You should see the Flume agent running in the console.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Flume on POP! OS Latest. You can now start using Flume to collect, ingest, and transfer large data sets from various sources to various destinations.
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