Chapter 2. Content Roadmap for Workflow Manager
The following resources provide additional information that can be useful when using Workflow Manager and associated Apache components.
Table 2.1. Workflow Manager Content roadmap
Task | Resources | Source | Description |
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Understanding | Apache Oozie Specification | Apache wiki | Apache Oozie is the engine behind Workflow Manager. Understanding how Oozie works can help you understand how to use Workflow Manager. |
Installing and Upgrading | Hortonworks | Ambari provides an end-to-end management and monitoring solution for your HDP cluster. Using the Ambari Web UI and REST APIs, you can deploy, operate, manage configuration changes, and monitor services for all nodes in your cluster from a central point. | |
Ambari Upgrade Guide | Hortonworks | Ambari and the HDP Stack being managed by Ambari can be upgraded independently. This guide provides information on: Getting ready to upgrade Ambari and HDP, Upgrading Ambari, and Upgrading HDP. | |
Developing | Hortonworks | Hortonworks Community Connection (HCC) articles that provide an example of each of the node actions available in Workflow Manager. | |
Apache wiki | Provides information about the Hive action extension that can be helpful when configuring a Hive node in WFM. | ||
Apache Hive2 Action | Apache wiki | Provides information about the Hive2 action extension that can be helpful when configuring a Hive2 node in WFM. | |
Apache Sqoop Action | Apache wiki | Provides information about the Sqoop action extension that can be helpful when configuring a Sqoop node in WFM. | |
Apache Shell Action | Apache wiki | Provides information about the Shell action extension that can be helpful when configuring a Shell node in WFM. | |
Apache Spark Action | Apache wiki | Provides information about the Spark action extension that can be helpful when configuring a Spark node in WFM. | |
Apache MapReduce, Pig, File System (FS), SSH, Sub-Workflow, and Java Actions | Apache wiki | Provides information about the actions initially included with Oozie; can be helpful when configuring these node types in WFM. | |
Apache Email Action | Apache wiki | Provides information about the emal action extension that can be helpful when configuring a email node in WFM. | |
Apache Custom Actions | Apache wiki | Provides information about the custom action extension that can be helpful when configuring a custom node in WFM. | |
Apache Java Cookbook | Apache wiki | Provides information about the Java action that can be helpful when configuring a Java node in WFM. | |
Security | Hortonworks | Provides an overview of the security features implemented in the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). | |
Other resources | Hortonworks Community Connection (HCC) | Hortonworks | Provides access to a community of big data users, developers, data scientists, and so forth. |