Key FeaturesBecome an expert Hadoop administrator and perform tasks to optimize your Hadoop ClusterImport and export data into Hive and use Oozie to manage workflow.Practical recipes will help you plan and secure your Hadoop cluster, and make it highly availableBook DescriptionHadoop enables the distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. Learning how to administer Hadoop is crucial to exploit its unique features. With this book, you will be able to overcome common problems encountered in Hadoop administration.The book begins with laying the foundation by showing you the steps needed to set up a Hadoop cluster and its various nodes. You will get a better understanding of how to maintain Hadoop cluster, especially on the HDFS layer and using YARN and MapReduce. Further on, you will explore durability and high availability of a Hadoop cluster.Youll get a better understanding of the schedulers in Hadoop and how to configure and use them for your tasks. You will also get hands-on experience with the backup and recovery options and the performance tuning aspects of Hadoop. Finally, you will get a better understanding of troubleshooting, diagnostics, and best practices in Hadoop administration.By the end of this book, you will have a proper understanding of working with Hadoop clusters and will also be able to secure, encrypt it, and configure auditing for your Hadoop clusters.What you will learnSet up the Hadoop architecture to run a Hadoop cluster smoothlyMaintain a Hadoop cluster on HDFS, YARN, and MapReduceUnderstand high availability with Zookeeper and Journal NodeConfigure Flume for data ingestion and Oozie to run various workflowsTune the Hadoop cluster for optimal performanceSchedule jobs on a Hadoop cluster using the Fair and Capacity schedulerSecure your cluster and troubleshoot it for various common pain pointsAbout the AuthorGurmukh Singh is a seasoned technology professional with 14+ years of industry experience in infrastructure design, distributed systems, performance optimization, and networks. He has worked in big data domain for the last 5 years and provides consultancy and training on various technologies.He has worked with companies such as HP, JP Morgan, and Yahoo.He has authored Monitoring Hadoop by Packt PublishingTable of ContentsHadoop Architecture and DeploymentMaintain Hadoop Cluster - HDFSMaintain Hadoop Cluster -YARN and MapReduceHigh AvailabilitySchedulersBackup and RecoveryData Ingestion and WorkflowPerformance TuningHbase and RDBMSCluster Planning Troubleshooting, Diagnostics and Best practisesSecurity
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