Course Outline

  • Introduction
    • Hadoop history, concepts
    • Ecosystem
    • Distributions
    • High level architecture
    • Hadoop myths
    • Hadoop challenges (hardware / software)
    • Labs: discuss your Big Data projects and problems
  • Planning and installation
    • Selecting software, Hadoop distributions
    • Sizing the cluster, planning for growth
    • Selecting hardware and network
    • Rack topology
    • Installation
    • Multi-tenancy
    • Directory structure, logs
    • Benchmarking
    • Labs: cluster install, run performance benchmarks
  • HDFS operations
    • Concepts (horizontal scaling, replication, data locality, rack awareness)
    • Nodes and daemons (NameNode, Secondary NameNode, HA Standby NameNode, DataNode)
    • Health monitoring
    • Command-line and browser-based administration
    • Adding storage, replacing defective drives
    • Labs: getting familiar with HDFS command lines
  • Data ingestion
    • Flume for logs and other data ingestion into HDFS
    • Sqoop for importing from SQL databases to HDFS, as well as exporting back to SQL
    • Hadoop data warehousing with Hive
    • Copying data between clusters (distcp)
    • Using S3 as complementary to HDFS
    • Data ingestion best practices and architectures
    • Labs: setting up and using Flume, the same for Sqoop
  • MapReduce operations and administration
    • Parallel computing before mapreduce: compare HPC vs Hadoop administration
    • MapReduce cluster loads
    • Nodes and Daemons (JobTracker, TaskTracker)
    • MapReduce UI walk through
    • Mapreduce configuration
    • Job config
    • Optimizing MapReduce
    • Fool-proofing MR: what to tell your programmers
    • Labs: running MapReduce examples
  • YARN: new architecture and new capabilities
    • YARN design goals and implementation architecture
    • New actors: ResourceManager, NodeManager, Application Master
    • Installing YARN
    • Job scheduling under YARN
    • Labs: investigate job scheduling
  • Advanced topics
    • Hardware monitoring
    • Cluster monitoring
    • Adding and removing servers, upgrading Hadoop
    • Backup, recovery and business continuity planning
    • Oozie job workflows
    • Hadoop high availability (HA)
    • Hadoop Federation
    • Securing your cluster with Kerberos
    • Labs: set up monitoring
  • Optional tracks
    • Cloudera Manager for cluster administration, monitoring, and routine tasks; installation, use. In this track, all exercises and labs are performed within the Cloudera distribution environment (CDH5)
    • Ambari for cluster administration, monitoring, and routine tasks; installation, use. In this track, all exercises and labs are performed within the Ambari cluster manager and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP 2.0)

Requirements

  • comfortable with basic Linux system administration
  • basic scripting skills

Knowledge of Hadoop and Distributed Computing is not required, but will be introduced and explained in the course.

Lab environment

Zero Install : There is no need to install hadoop software on students’ machines! A working hadoop cluster will be provided for students.

Students will need the following

  21 Hours
 

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Dates are subject to availability and take place between 09:30 and 16:30.
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