Background

The post covers installation of Hortonworks Sandbox (HD) on Mac using Docker. In software development, sandbox describes a testing environment that can be used to isolate untested code changes from a production code. Hortonworks Sandbox provides such an environment with the Hortonworks Data Platform installed. Hortonworks Data Platform is an open source framework facilitating distributed storage and processing large volumes of data.

Deploying system for distributed processing within a single computer may seem like a counter-intuitive idea but it’s actually a very common practice. Most frequent use cases involve various learning / professional development activities where one may be interested in learning new technology or simply exploring available interfaces. Other frequent use case pertains to various demos, where there may be a need to demonstrate product capabilities and accessing proper, production environment could be cumbersome.

Installation

Docker

Docker, which is now used by millions of developers, is and open platform for developing, shipping and running applications. More technically, Docker uses OS-level virtualisation to deliver software packages called containers. Before installing docker let’s check for the existing installation.

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which -a docker
# /usr/local/bin/docker
docker -v
# Docker version 20.10.2, build 2291f61

Assuming that the line above did not produce results we can install docker with use of Homebrew. To install Homebrew:

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/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

We can the progress with installing docker. The command will install ‘cask’ version of the Docker. In Homebrew lingo, ‘casks’ are applications with Graphical User Interfaces. It is possible to install Docker without GUI by running brew install docker.

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brew install --cask docker

HDP

The HDP can be installed with the provided scrip. The script can be downloaded from