Set Up a Wildcard DNS Subdomain

Cloudera Data Science Workbench uses DNS to route HTTP requests to specific engines and services. Wildcard subdomains (such as *.cdsw.<your_domain>.com) are required in order to provide isolation for user-generated content.

Wildcard subdomains help:

Securely expose interactive session services, such as visualizations, the terminal, and web UIs such as TensorBoard, Shiny, Plotly, and so on.
Securely isolate user-generated content from the application.

To set up subdomains for Cloudera Data Science Workbench, configure your DNS server with an A record for a wildcard DNS name such as *.cdsw.<your_domain>.com for the master host, and a second A record for the root entry of cdsw.<your_domain>.com.

For example, if your master IP address is 172.46.47.48, you'd configure two A records as follows:

cdsw.<your_domain>.com.   IN A 172.46.47.48
*.cdsw.<your_domain>.com.   IN A 172.46.47.48

You can also use a wildcard CNAME record if it is supported by your DNS provider.

Starting with version 1.5, the wildcard DNS hostname configured for Cloudera Data Science Workbench must now be resolvable from both, the CDSW cluster, and your Computer from where you are accessing the CDSW UI.