create_image.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Creates an AMI for the Spark EC2 scripts starting with a stock Amazon 
# Linux AMI.
# This has only been tested with Amazon Linux AMI 2014.03.2 

set -e

if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
   echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
   exit 1
fi

# Dev tools
sudo yum install -y java-1.7.0-openjdk-devel gcc gcc-c++ ant git
# Perf tools
sudo yum install -y dstat iotop strace sysstat htop perf
sudo debuginfo-install -q -y glibc
sudo debuginfo-install -q -y kernel
sudo yum --enablerepo='*-debug*' install -q -y java-1.7.0-openjdk-debuginfo.x86_64

# PySpark and MLlib deps
sudo yum install -y  python-matplotlib python-tornado scipy libgfortran
# SparkR deps
sudo yum install -y R
# Other handy tools
sudo yum install -y pssh
# Ganglia
sudo yum install -y ganglia ganglia-web ganglia-gmond ganglia-gmetad

# Root ssh config
sudo sed -i 's/PermitRootLogin.*/PermitRootLogin without-password/g' \
  /etc/ssh/sshd_config
sudo sed -i 's/disable_root.*/disable_root: 0/g' /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg

# Set up ephemeral mounts
sudo sed -i 's/mounts.*//g' /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
sudo sed -i 's/.*ephemeral.*//g' /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
sudo sed -i 's/.*swap.*//g' /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg

echo "mounts:" >> /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
echo " - [ ephemeral0, /mnt, auto, \"defaults,noatime,nodiratime\", "\
  "\"0\", \"0\" ]" >> /etc/cloud.cloud.cfg

for x in {1..23}; do
  echo " - [ ephemeral$x, /mnt$((x + 1)), auto, "\
    "\"defaults,noatime,nodiratime\", \"0\", \"0\" ]" >> /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
done

# Install Maven (for Hadoop)
cd /tmp
wget "http://apache.osuosl.org/maven/maven-3/3.2.3/binaries/"\
"apache-maven-3.2.3-bin.tar.gz"
tar xvzf apache-maven-3.2.3-bin.tar.gz
mv apache-maven-3.2.3 /opt/

# Edit bash profile
echo "export PS1=\"\\u@\\h \\W]\\$ \"" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "export M2_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-3.2.3" >> ~/.bash_profile
echo "export PATH=\$PATH:\$M2_HOME/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile

source ~/.bash_profile

# Build Hadoop to install native libs
sudo mkdir /root/hadoop-native
cd /tmp
sudo yum install -y protobuf-compiler cmake openssl-devel
wget "http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/hadoop/common/"\
"hadoop-2.4.1/hadoop-2.4.1-src.tar.gz"
tar xvzf hadoop-2.4.1-src.tar.gz
cd hadoop-2.4.1-src
mvn package -Pdist,native -DskipTests -Dtar
sudo mv hadoop-dist/target/hadoop-2.4.1/lib/native/* /root/hadoop-native

# Install Snappy lib (for Hadoop)
yum install -y snappy
ln -sf /usr/lib64/libsnappy.so.1 /root/hadoop-native/.