Generally it is only needed to install scdf-plugin-hdp plugin into ambari server which adds needed service definitions.

[root@ambari-1 ~]# yum -y install ambari-server
[root@ambari-1 ~]# ambari-server setup -s
[root@ambari-1 ~]# wget -nv http://repo.spring.io/yum-snapshot-local/scdf/1.0/scdf-snapshot-1.0.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/scdf-snapshot-1.0.repo
[root@ambari-1 ~]# yum -y install scdf-plugin-hdp
[root@ambari-1 ~]# ambari-server start

	Note
	Ambari plugin only works for redhat6 based systems for now.

When you create your cluste and choose a stack, make sure that redhat6 section contains repository named SCDF-1.0 and that it points to repo.spring.io/yum-snapshot-local/scdf/1.0.

From services choose Spring Cloud Dataflow and Kafka. Hdfs, Yarn and Zookeeper are forced dependencies.

Then in Customize Services what is really left for user to do is to add address for redis(as it’s required). Everything else is automatically configured. Technically it also allows you to switch to use rabbit by leaving Kafka out and defining rabbit settings there. But generally use of Kafka is a good choice.

	Note
	We also install H2 DB as service so that it can be accessed from every node.