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Cloudera Administration Handbook

You're reading from   Cloudera Administration Handbook A complete, hands-on guide to building and maintaining large Apache Hadoop clusters using Cloudera Manager and CDH5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783558964
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Apache Hadoop 2. HDFS and MapReduce FREE CHAPTER 3. Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop 4. Exploring HDFS Federation and Its High Availability 5. Using Cloudera Manager 6. Implementing Security Using Kerberos 7. Managing an Apache Hadoop Cluster 8. Cluster Monitoring Using Events and Alerts 9. Configuring Backups Index

Installing CDH

With a good background knowledge of CDH and its components, let's go ahead and install CDH on a cluster. The remainder of this chapter is going to be hands-on, and we will try to cover everything that is needed to get a fully functional cluster that runs CDH5.

CDH can be installed using one of the following two methods:

  • Installation using the operating system's package manager (yum/rpm)
  • Installation using Cloudera Manager

In this section, we will cover installation using the operating system's package manager. Installation of CDH using Cloudera Manager will be covered in Chapter 5, Using Cloudera Manager.

For the installation, we will be using four servers that run CentOS 6.4 (64-bit) as the operating system.

The following diagram shows a simple four-node Hadoop cluster that runs MapReduce Version 1 (MRv1):

Installing CDH

By performing the following installation instructions, we will try to configure our cluster to look like the one shown in the preceding diagram:

  1. The first step...
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