Notebook Storage

In Zeppelin there are two option for storage Notebook, by default the notebook is storage in the notebook folder in your local File System and the second option is S3.


Notebook Storage in S3

For notebook storage in S3 you need the AWS credentials, for this there are three options, the enviroment variable AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_ACCESS_SECRET_KEY, credentials file in the folder .aws in you home and IAM role for your instance. For complete the need steps is necessary:


you need the following folder structure on S3

bucket_name/
  username/
    notebook/

set the enviroment variable in the file zeppelin-env.sh:

export ZEPPELIN_NOTEBOOK_S3_BUCKET = bucket_name
export ZEPPELIN_NOTEBOOK_S3_USER = username

in the file zeppelin-site.xml uncommet and complete the next property:

<!--If used S3 to storage, it is necessary the following folder structure bucket_name/username/notebook/-->
<property>
  <name>zeppelin.notebook.s3.user</name>
  <value>username</value>
  <description>user name for s3 folder structure</description>
</property>
<property>
  <name>zeppelin.notebook.s3.bucket</name>
  <value>bucket_name</value>
  <description>bucket name for notebook storage</description>
</property>

uncomment the next property for use S3NotebookRepo class:

<property>
  <name>zeppelin.notebook.storage</name>
  <value>org.apache.zeppelin.notebook.repo.S3NotebookRepo</value>
  <description>notebook persistence layer implementation</description>
</property>

comment the next property:

<property>
  <name>zeppelin.notebook.storage</name>
  <value>org.apache.zeppelin.notebook.repo.VFSNotebookRepo</value>
  <description>notebook persistence layer implementation</description>
</property>