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Hadoop 2.x Administration Cookbook

By : Aman Singh
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Hadoop 2.x Administration Cookbook

By: Aman Singh

Overview of this book

Hadoop enables the distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. Learning how to administer Hadoop is crucial to exploit its unique features. With this book, you will be able to overcome common problems encountered in Hadoop administration. The book begins with laying the foundation by showing you the steps needed to set up a Hadoop cluster and its various nodes. You will get a better understanding of how to maintain Hadoop cluster, especially on the HDFS layer and using YARN and MapReduce. Further on, you will explore durability and high availability of a Hadoop cluster. You’ll get a better understanding of the schedulers in Hadoop and how to configure and use them for your tasks. You will also get hands-on experience with the backup and recovery options and the performance tuning aspects of Hadoop. Finally, you will get a better understanding of troubleshooting, diagnostics, and best practices in Hadoop administration. By the end of this book, you will have a proper understanding of working with Hadoop clusters and will also be able to secure, encrypt it, and configure auditing for your Hadoop clusters.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Hadoop 2.x Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Running a simple MapReduce program


In this recipe, we will look at how to make sense of the data stored on HDFS and extract useful information out of the files like the number of occurrences of a string, a pattern, or estimations, and various benchmarks. For this purpose, we can use MapReduce, which is a computation framework that helps us answer many questions we might have about the data.

With Hadoop, we can process huge amount of data. However, to get an understanding of its working, we'll start with a simple program such as pi estimation or a word count example.

ResourceManager is the master for Yet another Resource Negotiator (YARN). The Namenode stores the file metadata and the actual blocks/data reside on the slave nodes called Datanodes. All the jobs are submitted to the ResourceManager and it then assigns tasks to its slaves, called NodeManagers.

When a job is submitted to ResourceManager (RM), it will check for the job queue it is submitted to and whether the user has permissions...