Use Local Storage when Upgrading to HDP-2.6.3+

Perform the following steps to use local notebook storage when upgrading to HDP 2.6.3+ from earlier versions of HDP.

  1. Upgrade Ambari.
  2. Upgrade HDP and Zeppelin. During the upgrade, verify that the following configuration settings are present in Ambari for Zeppelin.
    zeppelin.notebook.storage = org.apache.zeppelin.notebook.repo.VFSNotebookRepo
    zeppelin.config.fs.dir = file:///etc/zeppelin/conf

    If necessary, add or update these configuration settings as shown above.

  3. After the upgrade is complete:
    1. Copy your notebooks and the notebook-authorization.json file from the previous Zeppelin installation directory to the new installation directory on the Zeppelin server machine.
    2. Verify that your existing notebooks are available on Zeppelin.