Technical requirements
For this chapter, we will focus on using Enterprise Steam to launch H2O clusters on an enterprise server cluster. Enterprise Steam technically is not required to launch H2O clusters but enterprise stakeholders typically view Enterprise Steam as a security, governance, and administrator requirement for implementing H2O in enterprise environments.
Enterprise Steam requires a license purchased from H2O.ai. If your organization does not have an instance of Enterprise Steam installed, you can access Enterprise Steam and an enterprise server cluster through a temporary trial license of the larger H2O platform. Alternatively, for ease of conducting the exercises in this book, you may wish to launch H2O clusters as a sandbox in your local environment (for example, on your laptop or desktop workstation) and bypass the use of Enterprise Steam.
See Appendix – Alternative Methods to Launch H2O Clusters for this Book to help you decide on how you wish to launch...