Administering Cloudera on Premises

Course Information

Course Name

ADMIN-230: Administering Cloudera on Premises

Exam code

CDP-ADMINPVC

Duration

4 Days

Certification

Cloudera Administrator On Premises

Overview

Cloudera is a fully integrated edge to AI product set. Cloudera Manager is purposely built as the DevOps tooling for building and managing the Cloudera 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 Cloudera Administrator will learn the full range of functionality and capability of Cloudera Manager.

This course provides an in-depth explanation and skills to become highly productive with Cloudera Manager and the Cloudera platform. Cloudera Manager is a full featured and mature DevOps tool. It is used to install, configure, operate, troubleshoot, report, and upgrade Cloudera. Many Cloudera 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 Profile

While this course is an entry point for aspiring Cloudera Administrators this course is detailed enough for more senior Cloudera 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. 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

Prerequisities

​The Cloudera Admin-230: Administering Cloudera Data Platform course is tailored for individuals aiming to become proficient CDP administrators. While there are no formal prerequisites, the following foundational knowledge is recommended to ensure a successful learning experience:

• Linux Proficiency: Familiarity with Linux command-line operations is essential, as CDP runs on Linux-based systems. ​

• SQL Knowledge: Understanding SQL is beneficial, given its relevance in data management tasks within the platform. ​

• Internet Access: Access to the Internet is necessary to reach the classroom environments, which are hosted on Amazon Web Services.

At Course Completion

Course Outline

Module 1: Cloudera Manager Design

• Roles of a CDP Administrator

• Getting aboard the classroom environment

Module 2: Cloudera Technology Architecture

• Cloudera Manager server-agent architecture

• Cloudera architecture

Module 3: Deploying Cloudera Manager

• Creating an air gap repository

• Install Cloudera Manager

Module 4: Configuring Auto-TLS

• Basic TLS

• Creating the jssecacerts file

• Deploying CM as a Root CA

Module 5: Incident Management

• Configuring monitoring, alerting and notification

• Rolling back changes

Module 6: Logging

• Managing Role logs

• Managing log rotation

Module 7: Problem Management

• Role logs and diagnosis

• Cloudera Blog, Community, and Support

Module 8: Configuring Kerberos

• Basic Kerberos

• Deploying Kerberos

Module 9: Deploy Cloudera Runtime

• Install Cloudera Manager Agents

• Search with Cloudera Manager

Module 10: Navigating within Cloudera Manager

• Navigating Cloudera Manager

• Search with Cloudera Manager

Module 11: Operations with Cloudera Manager

• Restarting Cloudera Manager

• Understanding and restarting supervisord

• Automating restarts of cluster services

Module 12: Reporting

• Create custom dashboards

• Create custom reports

Module 13: Performance Tuning

• Cloudera Manager tuning properties

• Tuning Cloudera Manage

Module 14: Bundling

• Creating Support bundles

• Limiting Support bundles

• Redaction rules

Module 15: Resource Management

• Managing Roles and Templates

• Adding Workers

• Decommissioning and removing workers

Module 16: YARN Queues and Jobs

• Install and Configure YARN Queues

• Running and Managing jobs

Module 17: Managing Services

• Identifying and installing Parcels

• Add and remove Cloudera services

Module 18: Configuration Management

• Configuration changes to properties

• Configuring Role Groups

Module 19: Upgrading Cloudera Manager

• Backup Cloudera Manager and the scm database

• Upgrading Cloudera Manager

Module 20: Managing Clusters with the REST API

• REST API documentation

• REST API Swagger UI

• REST API command line

• REST API shell script

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