ADMIN-230: Administrating Cloudera Data Platform
Description
Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) is a fully integrated edge to AI product set. Cloudera Manager is purposely built as the DevOps tooling for building and managing Cloudera Data Platform. This four-day hands-on course presents detailed explanation, comprehensive theory, key skills, and recommended practices for successful platform administration. Upon completion of this course a CDP Administrator will learn the full range of functionality and capability of Cloudera Manager in supporting Cloudera Data Platform.
This course provides an in-depth explanation and skills to become highly productive with Cloudera Manager and Cloudera Data Platform. Cloudera Manager is a full featured and mature DevOps tool. It is used to install, configure, operate, troubleshoot, report, and upgrade CDP. Many CDP Administrators only use a fraction of the capabilities built into Cloudera Manager. This course teaches the architecture, deployment, configuration, logging, reporting, REST API, and much more. The course provides references for architecture and recommended practices used by enterprises around the globe.
Audience and prerequisites
While this course is an entry point for aspiring CDP Administrators this course is detailed enough for more senior CDP Administrators to discover new functionality and capabilities.
This course is intended for Linux Administrators who are taking up roles as Platform Administrators. We recommend a minimum of 2 years of system administration experience in industry. Students must have proficiency in Linux CLI. Knowledge of Directory Services, Transport Layer Security, Kerberos, and SQL select statements is helpful. Students must have access to the Internet to reach Amazon Web Services.
Objectives
Students who complete this course will be able to install, configure, operate, manage, incident resolution, and troubleshoot Cloudera Manager.
Topics
Cloudera Manager Design
- Roles of a CDP Administrator
- Getting aboard the classroom environment
Cloudera Manager Architecture
- Cloudera Manager server-agent architecture
- CDP architecture
Deploying Cloudera Manager
- Creating an air gap repository
- Install Cloudera Manager
Configuring Auto-TLS
- Basic TLS
- Creating the jssecacerts file
- Deploying CM as a Root CA
Configuring Kerberos
- Basic Kerberos
- Deploying Kerberos
Deploy CDP Runtime
- Install Cloudera Manager Agents
- Search with Cloudera Manager
Navigating within Cloudera Manager
- Navigating Cloudera Manager
- Search with Cloudera Manager
Operations with Cloudera Manager
- Restarting Cloudera Manager
- Understanding and restarting
- Automating restarts of cluster services
Managing Services
- Identifying and installing Parcels
- Add and remove CDP services
Configuration Management
- Configuration changes to properties
- Configuring Role Groups
Incident Management
- Configuring monitoring, alerting and notification
- Rolling back changes
Logging
- Managing Role logs
- Managing log rotation
Problem Management
- Role logs and diagnosis
- Cloudera Blog, Community, and Support
Bundling
- Creating Support bundles
- Limiting Support bundles
- Redaction rules
Reporting
- Create custom dashboards
- Create custom reports
Performance Tuning
- Cloudera Manager tuning properties
- Tuning Cloudera Manager
Resource Management
- Managing Roles and Templates
- Adding Workers
- Decommissioning and removing workers
YARN Queues and Jobs
- Install and Configure YARN Queues
- Running and Managing jobs
Upgrading Cloudera Manager
- Backup Cloudera Manager and the scm database
- Upgrading Cloudera Manager
Managing Clusters with the REST API
- REST API documentation
- REST API Swagger UI
- REST API command line
- REST API shell script
