$ lsb_release -idrc
Distributor ID:    Debian
Description:       Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 (jessie)
Release:           8.8
Codename:          jessie

# apt-get install vim git sudo
# visudo

Add the below line with your username

<username>   ALL=(ALL)   ALL

# push 'Ctrl + x' key to quit visudo

now log-in as username and check for the access

$ sudo ls /root
$ sudo apt-get update                                                           
$ sudo apt-get upgrade                                                

$ sudo apt-get install -t jessie-backports openjdk-8-jre-headless
$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-clients java-1.8.0-openjdk*
$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-arm64$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_131"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-8u131-b11-1~bpo8+1-b11)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)

$ sudo apt-get install docker docker.io
$ docker --version
Docker version 1.12.6, build 78d1802

$ curl -L --fail https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.14.0/run.sh > /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
$ docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.14.0, build c7bdf9e

Note that if you hit an error "Not found" when you check for docker-compose version.  Just clone docker repository and copy the docker-composer 
binary under /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

$ git clone https://github.com/docker/compose.git
$ cd compose
$ sudo cp ./bin/docker-compose /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

$ sudo apt-get install maven
$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.0.5
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.8.0_131, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-arm64/jre
Default locale: en_IN, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.12.0-219-arm64", arch: "aarch64", family: "unix"
$

$ git clone https://git.linaro.org/leg/bigdata/bigtop-trunk.git
$ cd bigtop-trunk
$ git branch erp17.08 origin/erp17.08
$ git checkout erp17.08

$ cd docker/bigtop-puppet/debian-8-aarch64
$ sudo ./build.sh
$ sudo docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                   IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
bigtop/puppet       debian-8-aarch64     4b127acf355b        3 minutes ago       278.8 MB

$ cd <BIGTOP_SRC_TOP>
$ docker build -t bigtop/slaves:erp17.08-debian-8-aarch64 -f docker/bigtop-slaves/debian-8-aarch64/Dockerfile .

$ sudo docker run -v `pwd`:/ws bigtop/slaves:erp17.08-debian-8-aarch64 bash -l -c 'cd /ws ; ./gradlew bigtop-groovy-deb bigtop-utils-deb bigtop-jsvc-deb bigtop-tomcat-deb'

$ sudo docker run -v `pwd`:/ws bigtop/slaves:erp17.08-debian-8-aarch64 bash -l -c 'cd /ws ; ./gradlew hadoop-deb hbase-deb spark-deb hive-deb'
$ sudo docker run -v `pwd`:/ws bigtop/slaves:erp17.08-debian-8-aarch64 bash -l -c 'cd /ws ; ./gradlew hadoop-pkg hbase-pkg spark-pkg hive-pkg'

$ sudo docker run -v `pwd`:/ws bigtop/slaves:erp17.08-debian-8-aarch64 bash -l -c 'cd /ws ; ./gradlew flume-deb mahout-deb pig-deb sqoop-deb zookeeper-deb'

$ sudo docker run -v `pwd`:/ws bigtop/slaves:erp17.08-debian-8-aarch64 bash -l -c 'cd /ws ; ./gradlew apt'

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docker:
        memory_limit: "4g"
        image:  "bigtop/puppet:debian-8-aarch64"

repo: "http://bigtop-repos.s3.amazonaws.com/releases/1.2.0/debian/8-aarch64/aarch64"
distro: debian
components: [hdfs, yarn, mapreduce, hive]
enable_local_repo: true
smoke_test_components: [hive]
jdk: "openjdk-8-jdk"

cd provisioner/docker
./docker-hadoop.sh -C <smoke_test_cfg_yaml> -c <node_count> -s -d

for example:
# ./docker-hadoop.sh -C config_debian-8-aarch64.yaml -c 3 -s -d

./docker-hadoop.sh -E

usage: docker-hadoop.sh [-C file ] args
       -C file                                   Use alternate file for config.yaml
  commands:
       -c NUM_INSTANCES, --create NUM_INSTANCES  Create a Docker based Bigtop Hadoop cluster
       -d, --destroy                             Destroy the cluster
       -e, --exec INSTANCE_NO|INSTANCE_NAME      Execute command on a specific instance. Instance can be specified by name or number.
                                                 For example: docker-hadoop.sh --exec 1 bash
                                                              docker-hadoop.sh --exec docker_bigtop_1 bash
       -E, --env-check                           Check whether required tools has been installed
       -l, --list                                List out container status for the cluster
       -p, --provision                           Deploy configuration changes
       -s, --smoke-tests                         Run Bigtop smoke tests
       -h, --help

$ vim provisioner/docker/config_debian-8-aarch64.yaml

Do the below changes

components: [hdfs, yarn, mapreduce, hive, spark]
enable_local_repo: true
smoke_test_components: [spark]
jdk: "openjdk-8-jdk"

save and quit.

$ vim provisioner/utils/smoke-tests.sh

Add the below lines

export HADOOP_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop
export HADOOP_PREFIX=$HADOOP_HOME
export HADOOP_OPTS="-Djava.library.path=$HADOOP_PREFIX/lib/native"
export HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR=/usr/lib/hadoop/libexec
export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/etc/hadoop/conf
export HADOOP_COMMON_LIB_NATIVE_DIR=$HADOOP_HOME/lib/native
export HADOOP_COMMON_HOME=$HADOOP_HOME
export HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop-mapreduce
export HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop-hdfs
export YARN_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop-yarn
export HADOOP_YARN_HOME=/usr/lib/hadoop-yarn/
export HADOOP_USER_NAME=hdfs
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:.
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$HADOOP_HOME/hadoop-common-2.7.2.jar:$HADOOP_HOME/client/hadoop-hdfs-2.7.2.jar:$HADOOP_HOME/hadoop-auth-2.7.2.jar:/usr/lib/hadoop-mapreduce/*:/usr/lib/hive/lib/*:/usr/lib/hadoop/lib/*:
export JAVA_HOME=$(readlink -f /usr/bin/java | sed "s:bin/java::")
export PATH=/usr/lib/hadoop/libexec:/etc/hadoop/conf:$HADOOP_HOME/bin/:$PATH
export SPARK_HOME=/usr/lib/spark
export PATH=$HADOOP_HOME\bin:$PATH
export SPARK_DIST_CLASSPATH=$HADOOP_HOME\bin\hadoop:$CLASSPATH:/usr/lib/hadoop/lib/*:/usr/lib/hadoop/lib/*:/usr/lib/hadoop-mapreduce/*:.
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/usr/lib/hadoop/lib/*:.

export SPARK_HOME=/usr/lib/spark
export SPARK_MASTER_IP=172.17.0.2
export SPARK_MASTER_PORT=7077

save and quit.

Run the command smoke test commands

$ ./docker-hadoop.sh -C config_debian-8-aarch64.yaml -c 3 -s -d

If the smoke test is still failing.  It might be because of you have't set the "SPARK_MASTER_IP" properly.  Another way to do is that remove the $masterMode and add local[*] as below

$ vim bigtop-tests/smoke-tests/spark/TestSpark.groovy

make the below change

final String SPARK_SHELL = SPARK_HOME + "/bin/spark-shell --master local[*]"

save and quit. Now run the spark smoke-tests again.

$ cd docker/sandbox
If you are pointing to any other image e.g. the image located on your local git hub, you can edit the build script and change the "FROM bigtop/puppet:${OS}"
$ sudo ./build.sh -a bigtop -o debian-8-aarch64 -c "hadoop, spark, hive, hbase"

$ sudo docker tag 4b127acf355b nbhat/puppet:debian-8-aarch64
$ sudo docker login 
$ sudo docker push nbhat/puppet:debian-8-aarch64

$ cd  docker/bigtop-slaves/debian-8-aarch64
$ vim Dockerfile

Change the image fetching path in Dockerfile for example: "FROM bigtop/puppet:debian-8-aarch64" to "FROM nbhat/puppet:debian-8-aarch64" 
Note that the image must be available on my area at https://hub.docker.com/  

$ cd bigtop-trunk
$ git branch
* erp17.08
  master
$ sudo ./gradlew -POS=debian-8-aarch64 -Pprefix=erp17.08 bigtop-slaves
$ sudo docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                                        IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
bigtop/slaves       erp17.08-debian-8-aarch64                  9d5d71be2c8b        2 minutes ago       2.804 GB
bigtop/puppet       debian-8-aarch64                           4b127acf355b        About an hour ago   278.8 MB
nbhat/puppet        debian-8-aarch64                           4b127acf355b        About an hour ago   278.8 MB

$ sudo docker run -v `pwd`:/ws bigtop/slaves:erp17.08-debian-8-aarch64 bash -l -c 'cd /ws ; ./gradlew :task --all'