Understand your mixed cluster layout

Provides an explanation of a mixed cluster installation and information about the cluster layout.

You can also install NiFi on one or more Compute clusters and NiFi Registry on your Base cluster.

Install NiFi on a Compute cluster and NiFi Registry on your Base cluster when you want to share dataflows across multiple NiFi Compute clusters in your CDP environment.

When you install both NiFi on one or more Compute clusters, and NiFi Registry on your Base cluster, your cluster layout will look similar to the following: