Can Zookeeper run on dotcloud

Question

I'm trying to run nutch, which needs gora which needs hbase which needs zookeeper. Working backwards down to the hbase tutorial, here is my hbase-site.xml

<configuration>
  <property>
    <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
    <value>file:///home/dotcloud/data/hbase</value>
  </property>
  <property>
    <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
    <value>/home/dotcloud/data/zookeeper</value>
  </property>
</configuration>

Running hbase shell, I'm getting an error saying ...

hbase(main):001:0> 
hbase(main):002:0* create 'test', 'cf'
13/08/23 14:04:46 ERROR zookeeper.RecoverableZooKeeper: ZooKeeper exists failed after 3 retries
13/08/23 14:04:46 WARN zookeeper.ZKUtil: hconnection Unable to set watcher on znode (/hbase/hbaseid)
org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$ConnectionLossException: KeeperErrorCode = ConnectionLoss for /hbase/hbaseid

From what I can find Zookeeper in standalone mode doesn't like the loopback device on 127.0.1.1 but there is no sudo access in dotcloud to change /etc/hosts

Is this the root of the problem or have I made a mistake somewhere else? Can Zookeeper + Hbase + Gora + Nutch run on dotcloud?

Thanks

Answer 1

It looks like someone's already provided a recipe for zookeeper-on-dotcloud. The last commit was about 6 months ago, so it might need some updating.

https://github.com/gabrielgrant/zookeeper-on-dotcloud

If you use this recipe or model the approach after theirs, does it resolve some of the problems you're encountering?