Production Hadoop Cluster Deployment

Hadoop itself started with a strong core and File System designed to handle the big data challenges. Later, many applications were developed on top of this, creating a big ecosystem of applications that play nicely with each other. As the number of applications started increasing, the challenges to create and manage the Hadoop environment increased as well.

In this chapter, we will look at the following:

• Apache Ambari
• A Hadoop cluster with Ambari