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Cloudera Administration Handbook

By : Rohit Menon
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Cloudera Administration Handbook

By: Rohit Menon

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Cloudera Administration Handbook
Rohit Menon
Jul, 2014 | 254 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Cloudera Administration Handbook
Cloudera Administration Handbook
Credits
Credits
Notice
Notice
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with Apache Hadoop
Getting Started with Apache Hadoop
History of Apache Hadoop and its trends
Components of Apache Hadoop
Understanding the Apache Hadoop daemons
Introducing Cloudera
Introducing CDH
Responsibilities of a Hadoop administrator
Summary
2
HDFS and MapReduce
HDFS and MapReduce
Essentials of HDFS
The read/write operational flow in HDFS
Understanding the namenode UI
Understanding the secondary namenode UI
Exploring HDFS commands
Getting acquainted with MapReduce
Summary
3
Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop
Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop
Getting started with CDH
Understanding the CDH components
Installing CDH
Installing the CDH components
Summary
4
Exploring HDFS Federation and Its High Availability
Exploring HDFS Federation and Its High Availability
Implementing HDFS Federation
Implementing HDFS High Availability
Jobtracker high availability
Summary
5
Using Cloudera Manager
Using Cloudera Manager
Introducing Cloudera Manager
Understanding the Cloudera Manager architecture
Installing Cloudera Manager
Navigating the Cloudera Manager Web console
Configuring High Availability using Cloudera Manager
Summary
6
Implementing Security Using Kerberos
Implementing Security Using Kerberos
Understanding authentication and authorization
Introducing Kerberos
Understanding the Kerberos Architecture
Installing Kerberos
Configuring Kerberos for Apache Hadoop
Authorization in Apache Hadoop
Summary
7
Managing an Apache Hadoop Cluster
Managing an Apache Hadoop Cluster
Configuring Hadoop services using Cloudera Manager
Role management in Cloudera Manager
Managing hosts using Cloudera Manager
Managing multiple clusters with Cloudera Manager
Rebalancing a Hadoop cluster from Cloudera Manager
Summary
8
Cluster Monitoring Using Events and Alerts
Cluster Monitoring Using Events and Alerts
Monitoring Hadoop services from Cloudera Manager
Understanding events and alerts
Summary
9
Configuring Backups
Configuring Backups
Understanding backups
Understanding HDFS backups
Using the distributed copy (DistCp)
Configuring backups using Cloudera Manager
Summary
Index
Index

Chapter 3. Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop

With knowledge of HDFS and MapReduce, you are now ready to explore the world's most used Apache Hadoop distribution, Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH). CDH is thoroughly tested and consists of a host of components that have been carefully packaged to work well with each other.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Getting started with CDH

  • Understanding the CDH components

  • Installing CDH

  • Installing the CDH components

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