Administrator Training: CDP Private Cloud Base

Cloudera's four-day administrator training course for CDP Private Cloud Base provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of all the steps necessary to operate and maintain on-premises clusters using Cloudera Manager. From installation and configuration through load balancing and tuning, this Cloudera training course is the best preparation for the real-world challenges faced by administrators who run CDP Private Cloud Base.

Who Can Benefit

• This course is best suited to systems administrators who have at least basic Linux experience.

Skills Gained

• Through instructor-led discussion and interactive, hands-on exercises, you will learn how to:
• Install Cloudera Manager
• Use Cloudera Manager to install a CDP Private Cloud Base cluster
• Configure and monitor the cluster using Cloudera Manager
• Understand, evaluate, and select the most appropriate data storage option
• Optimize cluster performance
• Perform routine cluster maintenance tasks
• Detect, troubleshoot, and repair problems with the cluster

Prerequisites

• Prior knowledge of CDP, nor earlier platforms such as Cloudera’s CDH or Hortonworks HDP, is not required.

Course Content

Course Details

• Cloudera Data Platform
• Industry Trends for Big Data
• The Challenge to Become Data-Driven
• The Enterprise Data Cloud
• CDP Overview
• CDP Form Factors

• CDP Private Cloud Base Installation
• Installation Overview
• Cloudera Manager Installation
• CDP Runtime Overview
• Cloudera Manager Introduction

• Cluster Configuration
• Overview
• Configuration Settings
• Modifying Service Configurations
• Configuration Files
• Managing Role Instances
• Adding New Services
• Adding and Removing Hosts

• Data Storage
• Overview
• HDFS Topology and Roles
• HDFS Performance and Fault Tolerance
• HDFS and Hadoop Security Overview
• Working with HDFS
• HBase Overview
• Kudu Overview
• Cloud Storage Overview

• Data Ingest
• Data Ingest Overview
• File Formats
• Ingesting Data using File Transfer or REST Interfaces
• Importing Data from Relational Databases with Apache Sqoop
• Ingesting Data Using NiFi
• Best Practices for Importing Data

• Data Flow
• Overview of Cloudera Flow Management and NiFi
• NiFi Architecture
• Cloudera Edge Flow Management and MiNiFi
• Controller Services
• Apache Kafka Overview
• Apache Kafka Cluster Architecture
• Apache Kafka Command Line Tools

• Data Access and Discovery
• Apache Hive
• Apache Impala
• Apache Impala Tuning
• Search Overview
• Hue Overview
• Managing and Configuring Hue
• Hue Authentication and Authorization
• CDSW Overview

• Data Compute
• YARN Overview
• Running Applications on YARN
• Viewing YARN Applications
• YARN Application Logs
• MapReduce Applications
• YARN Memory and CPU Settings
• Tez Overview
• Hive on Tez
• ACID for Hive
• Spark Overview
• How Spark Applications Run on YARN
• Monitoring Spark Applications
• Phoenix Overview

• Managing Resources
• Configuring cgroups with CPU Scheduling
• The Capacity Scheduler
• Managing Queues
• Impala Query Scheduling

• Planning Your Cluster
• General Planning Considerations
• Choosing the Right Hardware
• Network Considerations
• CDP Private Cloud Considerations
• Configuring Nodes

• Advanced Cluster Configuration
• Configuring Service Ports
• Tuning HDFS and MapReduce
• Managing Cluster Growth
• Erasure Coding
• Enabling HDFS High Availability

• Cluster Maintenance
• Checking HDFS Status
• Copying Data Between Clusters
• Rebalancing Data in HDFS
• HDFS Directory Snapshots
• Host Maintenance
• Upgrading a Cluster

• Cluster Monitoring
• Cloudera Manager Monitoring Features
• Health Tests
• Events and Alerts
• Charts and Reports
• Monitoring Recommendations

• Cluster Troubleshooting
• Overview
• Troubleshooting Tools
• Misconfiguration Examples

• Security
• Data Governance with SDX
• Hadoop Security Concepts
• Hadoop Authentication Using Kerberos
• Hadoop Authorization
• Hadoop Encryption
• Securing a Hadoop Cluster
• Apache Ranger
• Apache Atlas
• Backup and Recovery

• Private Cloud / Public Cloud
• CDP Overview
• Private Cloud Capabilities
• Public Cloud Capabilities
• What is Kubernetes?
• WXM Overview
• Auto-scaling