macOS
brew install flintrocklocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew / Rang 6260
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für flintrock in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
brew install flintrocklocal Homebrew formula metadata
Überblick
Tool for launching Apache Spark clusters
Verlauf
Flintrock is a command-line tool for launching Apache Spark clusters, especially short-lived EC2 clusters for experimentation, performance testing, and automated pipelines.
The README explicitly positions Flintrock as a faster, better alternative to spark-ec2. Its motivation section says spark-ec2 made Spark accessible but had pain points around launch speed, missing config files, non-resizable clusters, and custom machine images.
Flintrock developed into a Python CLI with YAML configuration, subcommands for launch, destroy, login, describe, add-slaves, remove-slaves, run-command, and copy-file, and support for current Spark and Hadoop/HDFS defaults.
The project README lists external talks, guides, and papers that used or discussed Flintrock, including a Spark Summit talk titled 'Flintrock: A faster, better spark-ec2'.
Official install guidance centers on pipx/PyPI and GitHub releases, while the README notes Homebrew as a community-supported distribution that may be out of date.
A typical workflow is to run flintrock configure, save EC2 and Spark defaults into config.yaml, launch a cluster, work on Spark, and destroy the cluster afterward.
The README recommends IAM roles for S3 access rather than copying AWS credentials to clusters, and describes Flintrock as unsuitable for permanent infrastructure or non-Spark Hadoop services.
Flintrock is notable in package history as a CLI that wrapped a complicated cloud data workflow into a user-level package instead of a long-lived infrastructure framework.
Its packaging story also shows the boundary between official Python application distribution and community package-manager formulas: the project points users to pipx for current releases and marks Homebrew as community supported.
Sicherheitslage
infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.
orange Risiko · mittel Konfidenz · infrastructure
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
local files
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Flintrock/config.yaml~/.config/Flintrock/config.yaml~/Library/Application Support/Flintrock/config.yamlExecutables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
flintrock | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
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Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:flintrock |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.1.0 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/nchammas/flintrock |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Quellspur
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