Manual cluster setup

This quick start guide will show you how to set up a Pinot cluster manually.
Start Pinot components (scripts or docker images)
A manual cluster setup consists of the following components - 
1. Zookeeper
2. Controller
3. Broker
4. Server
5. Kafka

We will run each of these components in separate containers
Using docker images
Using launcher scripts
Using docker images
Start Pinot Components using docker 
Pull docker image
You can try out the pre-built Pinot all-in-one docker image.
export PINOT_VERSION=0.4.0-SNAPSHOT
export PINOT_IMAGE=apachepinot/pinot:${PINOT_VERSION}
docker pull ${PINOT_IMAGE}
(Optional) You can also follow the instructions here to build your own images.
0. Create a Network
Create an isolated bridge network in docker
docker network create -d bridge pinot-demo
1. Start Zookeeper
Start Zookeeper in daemon mode. This is a single node zookeeper setup. Zookeeper is the central metadata store for Pinot and should be set up with replication for production use. See Running Replicated Zookeeper for more information.
docker run \
    --network=pinot-demo \
    --name  pinot-zookeeper \
    --restart always \
    -p 2181:2181 \
    -d zookeeper:3.5.6
Start  ZKUI to browse Zookeeper data at http://localhost:9090.
docker run --rm -ti \
	--network pinot-demo --name=zkui \
	-p 9090:9090 \
	-e ZK_SERVER=pinot-zookeeper:2181 \
	-d qnib/plain-zkui:latest
Alternatively, you can also use Zooinspector to browse zookeeper as well.
2. Start Pinot Controller
Start Pinot Controller in daemon and connect to Zookeeper.
docker run --rm -ti \
    --network=pinot-demo \
    --name pinot-quickstart \
    -p 9000:9000 \
    -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins -Xms4G -Xmx8G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -XX:+PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime -Xloggc:gc-pinot-controller.log" \
    -d ${PINOT_IMAGE} StartController \
    -zkAddress pinot-zookeeper:2181
3. Start Pinot Broker
Start Pinot Broker in daemon and connect to Zookeeper.
docker run --rm -ti \
    --network=pinot-demo \
    --name pinot-broker \
    -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins -Xms4G -Xmx4G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -XX:+PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime -Xloggc:gc-pinot-broker.log" \
    -d ${PINOT_IMAGE} StartBroker \
    -zkAddress pinot-zookeeper:2181
4. Start Pinot Server
Start Pinot Server in daemon and connect to Zookeeper.
docker run --rm -ti \
    --network=pinot-demo \
    --name pinot-server \
    -e JAVA_OPTS="-Dplugins.dir=/opt/pinot/plugins -Xms4G -Xmx16G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -XX:+PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime -Xloggc:gc-pinot-server.log" \
    -d ${PINOT_IMAGE} StartServer \
    -zkAddress pinot-zookeeper:2181
5. Start Kafka
Optionally, you can also start Kafka for setting up realtime streams. This brings up the Kafka broker on port 9092.
docker run --rm -ti \
	--network pinot-demo --name=kafka \
	-e KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT=pinot-zookeeper:2181/kafka \
	-e KAFKA_BROKER_ID=0 \
	-e KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME=kafka \
	-d wurstmeister/kafka:latest

Now all Pinot related components are started as an empty cluster.
You can run the below command to check container status.
docker container ls -a
Sample Console Output
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                       COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                                                  NAMES
9ec20e4463fa        wurstmeister/kafka:latest   "start-kafka.sh"         43 minutes ago      Up 43 minutes                                                              kafka
0775f5d8d6bf        apachepinot/pinot:latest    "./bin/pinot-admin.s…"   44 minutes ago      Up 44 minutes       8096-8099/tcp, 9000/tcp                                pinot-server
64c6392b2e04        apachepinot/pinot:latest    "./bin/pinot-admin.s…"   44 minutes ago      Up 44 minutes       8096-8099/tcp, 9000/tcp                                pinot-broker
b6d0f2bd26a3        apachepinot/pinot:latest    "./bin/pinot-admin.s…"   45 minutes ago      Up 45 minutes       8096-8099/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9000->9000/tcp                  pinot-quickstart
570416fc530e        zookeeper:3.5.6             "/docker-entrypoint.…"   45 minutes ago      Up 45 minutes       2888/tcp, 3888/tcp, 0.0.0.0:2181->2181/tcp, 8080/tcp   pinot-zookeeper
Using launcher scripts
Prerequisites
Follow this instruction in Getting Pinot to get Pinot
Start Pinot components via launcher scripts
1. Start Zookeeper
cd apache-pinot-incubating-${PINOT_VERSION}-bin
bin/pinot-admin.sh StartZookeeper \
  -zkPort 2191
You can use Zooinspector to browse the Zookeeper instance.
2. Start Pinot Controller
export JAVA_OPTS="-Xms4G -Xmx8G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -XX:+PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime -Xloggc:gc-pinot-controller.log"
bin/pinot-admin.sh StartController \
    -zkAddress localhost:2191 \
    -controllerPort 9000
3. Start Pinot Broker
export JAVA_OPTS="-Xms4G -Xmx4G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -XX:+PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime -Xloggc:gc-pinot-broker.log"
bin/pinot-admin.sh StartBroker \
    -zkAddress localhost:2191
4. Start Pinot Server
export JAVA_OPTS="-Xms4G -Xmx16G -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -XX:+PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime -Xloggc:gc-pinot-server.log"
bin/pinot-admin.sh StartServer \
    -zkAddress localhost:2191
5. Start Kafka
bin/pinot-admin.sh  StartKafka \ 
  -zkAddress=localhost:2191/kafka \
  -port 19092
Now all Pinot related components are started as an empty cluster.
Now it's time to start adding data to the cluster. Check out some of the Recipes or follow the Batch upload sample data and Stream sample data for instructions on loading your own data.
Running on AWS
Batch import example
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