Apache Ambari Project Retired: End of an Era for Hadoop Management Tool

As of the article's publication, the Apache Ambari project has been officially retired on the Apache website.

This project has retired.

Apache Ambari is a web‑based supply, management and monitoring tool for Apache Hadoop clusters and was once a top‑level Apache Software Foundation project.

One of Ambari’s developers, Jayush Luniya, proposed pausing development because most contributors and PMC members were inactive; in the past two years only version 2.7.6 was released.

Luniya opened a 72‑hour vote to retire the project, and the vote passed unanimously with a +1 response.

The project has now been listed in the Apache Attic.

Ambari supports most Hadoop components, including HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, HBase, Zookeeper, Sqoop, and HCatalog.

Retirement means the Apache community will no longer maintain the project or issue new releases (including bug‑fix versions), though the website, source code, and JIRA remain accessible.

Since becoming a top‑level project at the end of 2013, Ambari enjoyed a period of prominence before completing its mission and eventually being retired.

“Old soldiers do not die, they simply fade away.”