Setting up Standalone zookeeper cluster for production cluster

1.      Download the zookeeper from


a.      http://zookeeper.apache.org/releases.html#download or http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/zookeeper/



2.      The downloaded file will be Tar file so extract in your desired directory.

3.      Create Directory for Zookeeper snapshot logs

Hadoop: Apache ZooKeeper

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications. Each time they are implemented there is a lot of work that goes into fixing the bugs and race conditions that are inevitable.