Configuring Drill to Run Under YARN

To run Drill under YARN, you must have the YARN version of Drill installed on the node designated as the Drill-on-YARN client. If you have not already planned your cluster and installed the YARN-ready version of Drill, see Install Drill to Run Under YARN and then return to this topic to configure Drill to run as a YARN application.

Configuring Drill to run under YARN requires modifications to Drill, Drill-on-YARN, and YARN configuration files. The following sections provide the information needed to make the changes to the configuration files, as well as information about how to launch Drill under YARN and validate the cluster configuration and status of the Drill nodes.

Complete the following steps to configure Drill to run under YARN, launch Drill as a YARN application, and validate the cluster: