About the MapR Data Platform Persistent Application Client Container (PACC)

This container gives you seamless access to MapR Data Platform cluster services.

This topic introduces the MapR Persistent Application Client Container (PACC), including its function, benefits, components, and applications.

The MapR (PACC) is a Docker-based container image that includes a container-optimized MapR client. The PACC provides seamless access to MapR Converged Data Platform services, including the MapR File System, MapR Database, and MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka. The PACC makes it fast and easy to run containerized applications that access data in the MapR.

FUSE POSIX Client for File-Based Applications

To support persistent, file-based applications, the MapR PACC includes a MapR FUSE-Based POSIX Client, optimized for containers, that allows app servers, web servers, and other applications to read and write data directly to the MapR filesystem. If your cluster has a MapR POSIX Client for Containers license, the PACC can connect with MapR 5.1 or later clusters.

Traditionally, all file data created by containers is lost when a container is terminated, which can happen during an application or hardware failure. By using the POSIX client within the PACC, applications can reliably persist file data directly to the MapR filesystem, where it can be re-attached to the container in the event of application or hardware failures.

Support for Microservice Applications

To support stateful microservice applications, the MapR PACC also contains a container-optimized version of the MapR client, which includes libraries for accessing MapR Database and MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka.

Secure Access

The MapR PACC is designed to provide access to a secure cluster for all MapR Converged Platform data services. Users can pass a MapR ticket file into the container at runtime. All data access, whether to the MapR File System, MapR Database, or MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka, is authorized and audited according to the authenticated identity of the ticket file.

PACC Contents

The PACC includes the following components:

  • MapR Database Client1
  • MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka Client
  • POSIX Client for Containers
  • Hadoop Client with YARN2
  • HBase Client2
  • Hive Client2
  • Pig Client2
  • Python
  • Java
  • Curl, Wget, Openssl, NFS-common, etc

1The MapR Database client includes support for MapR Database binary tables and MapR Database JSON tables.

2Included only if specified and only in MapR PACC images created using mapr-setup.sh.

The following diagram illustrates the contents of the PACC, and how it allows applications to access MapR Converged Data Platform services.

Pre-Built and User-Created Images

To get started with the MapR PACC, you can take advantage of pre-built Docker images or create your own images to include site-specific environmental parameters:

To . . . See this topic
See a list of the MapR pre-built Docker images Extending a MapR PACC
Create your own images containing MapR software Creating a MapR PACC Image Using mapr-setup.sh