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)

Start Pinot Components using docker

Pull docker image

You can try out pre-built Pinot all-in-one docker image.

export PINOT_VERSION=0.3.0-SNAPSHOT
export PINOT_IMAGE=apachepinot/pinot:${PINOT_VERSION}
docker pull ${PINOT_IMAGE}

(Optional) You can also follow the instructions 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 for more information.

docker run \
    --network=pinot-demo \
    --name  pinot-zookeeper \
    --restart always \
    -p 2181:2181 \
    -d zookeeper:3.5.6

docker run --rm -ti \
    --network pinot-demo --name=zkui \
    -p 9090:9090 \
    -e ZK_SERVER=pinot-zookeeper:2181 \
    -d qnib/plain-zkui:latest

2. Start Pinot Controller

Start Pinot Controller in daemon and connect to Zookeeper.

docker run --rm -ti \
    --network=pinot-demo \
    --name pinot-controller \
    -p 9000:9000 \
    -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 \
    -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 \
    -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 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-controller
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

Prerequisites

Start Pinot components via launcher scripts