Apache NiFi - MiNiFi

MiNiFi is a child project effort of Apache NiFi

Table of Contents

• Features
• Requirements
• Getting Started
• Docker Build
• Getting Help
• Documentation
• License
• Export Control

Features

Apache NiFi - MiNiFi is a complementary data collection approach that supplements the core tenets of NiFi in dataflow management, focusing on the collection of data at the source of its creation.

Specific goals for MiNiFi are comprised of:

• small and lightweight footprint
• central management of agents
• generation of data provenance
• integration with NiFi for follow-on dataflow management and full chain of custody of information

Perspectives of the role of MiNiFi should be from the perspective of the agent acting immediately at, or directly adjacent to, source sensors, systems, or servers.

Requirements

• JDK 1.8 or higher
• Apache Maven 3.1.0 or higher

Getting Started

To build:

• Execute mvn clean install or for parallel build execute mvn -T 2.0C clean install. On a modest development laptop that is a couple of years old, the latter build takes a bit under two minutes. After a large amount of output you should eventually see a success message.

    $ mvn -T 2.0C clean install
    [INFO] Scanning for projects...
    [INFO] Inspecting build with total of 26 modules...
        ...tens of thousands of lines elided...
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] Total time: 47.373 s (Wall Clock)
    [INFO] Finished at: 2016-07-06T13:07:28-04:00
    [INFO] Final Memory: 36M/1414M
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  

To run:

• Change directory to 'minifi-assembly'. In the target directory, there should be a build of minifi.

    $ cd minifi-assembly
    $ ls -lhd target/minifi*
    drwxr-xr-x  3 user  staff   102B Jul  6 13:07 minifi-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-bin
    -rw-r--r--  1 user  staff    39M Jul  6 13:07 minifi-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-bin.tar.gz
    -rw-r--r--  1 user  staff    39M Jul  6 13:07 minifi-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip
  

• For testing ongoing development you could use the already unpacked build present in the directory named "minifi-version-bin", where version is the current project version. To deploy in another location make use of either the tarball or zipfile and unpack them wherever you like. The distribution will be within a common parent directory named for the version.

    $ mkdir ~/example-minifi-deploy
    $ tar xzf target/minifi-*-bin.tar.gz -C ~/example-minifi-deploy
    $ ls -lh ~/example-minifi-deploy/
    total 0
    drwxr-xr-x  10 user  staff   340B Jul 6 01:06 minifi-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
  

To run MiNiFi:

• Change directory to the location where you installed NiFi and run it.

    $ cd ~/example-minifi-deploy/minifi-*
    $ ./bin/minifi.sh start
  

• View the logs located in the logs folder $ tail -F ~/example-minifi-deploy/logs/minifi-app.log

• For help building your first data flow and sending data to a NiFi instance see the System Admin Guide located in the docs folder or making use of the minifi-toolkit, which aids in adapting NiFi templates to MiNiFi YAML configuration file format.

• If you are testing ongoing development, you will likely want to stop your instance.

    $ cd ~/example-minifi-deploy/minifi-*
    $ ./bin/minifi.sh stop
  

Docker Build

To build:

• Execute mvn -P docker clean install. This will run the full build, create a docker image based on it, and run docker-compose integration tests. After it completes successfully, you should have an apacheminifi:${minifi.version} image that can be started with the following command (replacing ${minifi.version} with the current maven version of your branch):

docker run -d -v YOUR_CONFIG.YML:/opt/minifi/minifi-${minifi.version}/conf/config.yml apacheminifi:${minifi.version}

Getting Help

If you have questions, you can reach out to our mailing list: [email protected] (archive). For more interactive conversations and chat, we're also often available in IRC: #nifi on irc.freenode.net and in #NiFi on ASF HipChat.

Documentation

See https://nifi.apache.org/minifi and https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MINIFI for the latest documentation.

License

Except as otherwise noted this software is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Export Control

This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to see if this is permitted. See https://www.wassenaar.org/ for more information.

The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object code and source code.

The following provides more details on the included cryptographic software:

Apache NiFi - MiNiFi uses BouncyCastle, JCraft Inc., and the built-in java cryptography libraries for SSL, SSH, and the protection of sensitive configuration parameters. See https://bouncycastle.org/about.html https://jcraft.com/c-info.html https://www.oracle.com/us/products/export/export-regulations-345813.html for more details on each of these libraries cryptography features.