How to specify ReleaseLabel for EMR cluster with Boto2
Boto is the AWS SDK for Python. You can create clusters, instances or anything using Boto. But sometimes Boto imposes limitations. I wanted to create an EMR cluster with RelaseLabel=4.2.0
. But we were using Boto2. ReleaseLabel
is an option in Boto3. For Boto2 there was no documented option for RelaseLabel
.
So I found out a way to create EMR (Elastic Map Reduce) clusters using Boto 2 with a specific ReleaseLabel
.
I have commented AMI Version
because ReleaseLabel
will pick AMI version
correctly. The above program will print the cluster ID
in the terminal.
Sometimes you might get an issue saying “No Default VPC found.
”. This is a network related issue. In that case, you might need to specify subnet ID
for EMR cluster. Then you don’t need to specify an availability zone.