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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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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    An easy-to-follow Apache Hadoop administrator’s guide filled with practical screenshots and explanations for each step and configuration. This book is great for administrators interested in setting up and managing a large Hadoop cluster. If you are an administrator, or want to be an administrator, and you are ready to build and maintain a production-level cluster running CDH5, then this book is for you.

    What you will learn

    • Understand the Apache Hadoop architecture and the future of distributed processing frameworks
    • Use HDFS and MapReduce for all filerelated 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

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Apache Hadoop
    2. HDFS and MapReduce
    3. Cloudera Distribution of Hadoop
    4. High Availability and HDFS Federation
    5. Cloudera Manager
    6. Security
    7. Cluster Management
    8. Monitoring and Troubleshooting
    9. Backups
    https://github.com/packtpublishing/cloudera-administration-handbook
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78355-897-1
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 254