This post describes how an upgrade from Ambari 2.4.1.0 to 2.5 has been done. The reason for that is to be able to further upgrade HDP to 2.6. Upgrade of HDP from 2.5 to 2.6 is described here.

Ambari Server is installed on Ubuntu 14.04. The same OS is used across the whole HDP cluster.

The following services are upgraded using this blog post:

• Ambari Server
• Ambari Agent
• Ambari Infra
• Ambari Metrics
• Ambari Collector
• Grafana

Backup

It is important to do a database backup of the Ambari database. Metadata for my Ambari is stored in MySql database.

Create a directory for backup

mkdir /home/ubuntu/ambari24-backup

Backup the database (enter password when prompted)

mysqldump -u ambari -p ambari_db > /home/ubuntu/ambari24-backup/ambari.mysql

Make a safe copy of the Ambari Server configuration file

sudo cp /etc/ambari-server/conf/ambari.properties ambari24-backup/

Prepare for installation of Ambari Agent and Server

Stop Ambari Metrics from the Ambari Web UI

Stop Ambari Server on Ambari Server instance

sudo ambari-server stop

Stop all Ambari Agents on all instances in the cluster where it is running

sudo ambari-agent stop

On all instances running Ambari Server or Ambari Agent do the following

sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ambari.list db-backups/
sudo wget -nv http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/ambari/ubuntu14/2.x/updates/2.5.0.3/ambari.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ambari.list

Upgrade Ambari Server

sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-cache show ambari-server | grep Version

The last command should output something like this

Version: 2.5.0.3-7
Version: 2.4.1.0-22

This means version 2.5 is available, Ambari Server can be installed

Install Ambari Server

sudo apt-get install ambari-server

Some lines from the output

The following packages will be upgraded:
  ambari-server

Unpacking ambari-server (2.5.0.3-7) over (2.4.1.0-22) ...

Setting up ambari-server (2.5.0.3-7) ...

Confirm that there is only one ambari server jar file

ll /usr/lib/ambari-server/ambari-server*jar

Output

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5806966 Apr  2 23:33 /usr/lib/ambari-server/ambari-server-2.5.0.3.7.jar

Install Ambari Agent

On each host running Ambari agent

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ambari-agent

Check if the Ambari agent install was a success

dpkg -l ambari-agent

Output from one node

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                         Version        Architecture    Description
+++-============================-==============-===============-=================
ii  ambari-agent                 2.5.0.3-7      amd64           Ambari Agent

Upgrade Ambari DB schema

On Ambari Server instance, run the following command

sudo ambari-server upgrade

The following question shows up. The backup has been done at the beginning. Type y and press Enter.

Ambari Server configured for MySQL. Confirm you have made a backup of the Ambari Server database [y/n] (y)?

Output

INFO: Upgrading database schema
INFO: Return code from schema upgrade command, retcode = 0
INFO: Schema upgrade completed
Adjusting ambari-server permissions and ownership...
Ambari Server 'upgrade' completed successfully.

Start the services

Start Ambari Server

sudo ambari-server start

Start Ambari Agent on all instances where it is installed

sudo ambari-agent start

Post-installation tasks

Hive and Oozie (which I have installed in HDP) are using MySql, so I have to put the jar file in place

sudo ambari-server setup --jdbc-db=mysql --jdbc-driver=/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar