Disco Documentation

Background

• What is Disco?
• Technical Overview
• FAQ
• Release notes
• Glossary
• Screenshots

Getting started

• Get Disco
• Setting up Disco
• Installing Disco System-Wide
• Tutorial
• Extended Tutorial
• Troubleshooting Disco installation
• Get Involved

Disco In Depth

• Administering Disco
• Pushing Chunked Data to DDFS
• Contributing to Disco
• Data Flow in MapReduce Disco Jobs
• Disco Distributed Filesystem
• DiscoDB Tutorial
• The Job Pack
• Out-of-band results
• Pipeline Data Flow in Disco Jobs
• Style Guide for Disco Code
• The Disco Worker Protocol

Reference

• disco – API Reference
  • disco.core – Disco Core Library
  • disco.ddfs – Client interface for Disco Distributed Filesystem
  • disco.error – Errors with special meaning in Disco
  • disco.job – Disco Jobs
  • disco.schemes – Default input streams for URL schemes
  • disco.settings – Disco Settings
  • disco.task – Disco Tasks
  • disco.util – Helper functions
  • disco.worker – Python Worker Interface
  • disco.worker.modutil – Parse and find module dependencies
  • disco.worker.task_io – I/O Utility functions for Disco tasks
  • disco.worker.classic – Classic Disco Worker Interface
  • disco.worker.pipeline – Pipeline Disco Worker Interface
• disco – Disco command line utility
• ddfs – DDFS command line utility