Cloudera Administration Handbook

Apache Hadoop is an open source distributed computing technology that assists users in processing large volumes of data with relative ease, helping them to generate tremendous insights into their data. Cloudera, with their open source distribution of Hadoop, has made data analytics on big data possible and accessible to anyone interested.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the Apache Hadoop architecture and the future of distributed processing frameworks
• Use HDFS and MapReduce for all file-related operations
• Install and configure CDH to bring up an Apache Hadoop cluster
• Configure HDFS High Availability and HDFS Federation to prevent single points of failure
• Install and configure Cloudera Manager to perform administrator operations
• Implement security by installing and configuring Kerberos for all services in the cluster
• Add, remove, and rebalance nodes in a cluster using cluster management tools
• Understand and configure the different backup options to back up your HDFS

About the Author

Rohit Menon is a senior system analyst living in Denver, Colorado. He has over 7 years of experience in the field of Information Technology, which started with the role of a real-time applications developer back in 2006. He now works for a product-based company specializing in software for large telecom operators. He graduated with a master's degree in Computer Applications from University of Pune, where he built an autonomous maze-solving robot as his final year project. He later joined a software consulting company in India where he worked on C#, SQL Server, C++, and RTOS to provide software solutions to reputable organizations in USA and Japan. After this, he started working for a product-based company where most of his time was dedicated to programming the finer details of products using C++, Oracle, Linux, and Java. He is a person who always likes to learn new technologies and this got him interested in web application development. He picked up Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and built www.flicksery.com, a Netflix search engine that makes searching for titles on Netflix much easier.