System requirements

Review the system requirements before getting started with installing Cloudera Flow Management.

Supported versions of CDP

Cloudera Flow Management 2.1.7.1000 supports the following versions of CDP Private Cloud Base:

CDP 7.1.9 and all Service Packs
CDP 7.1.7 and all Service Packs

Supported JAVA Development Kits (JDK)

Supported JDKs:

Oracle Java™ SE Development Kit 8, Update 252 (JDK 8u252) and later
OpenJDK 1.8, Update 252 (JDK 8u252) and later
OpenJDK 11
Azul Zulu JDK 1.8, Update 252 (JDK 8u252) and later
Azul Zulu JDK 11
JDK 17
note
Cloudera Flow Management 2.1.7.1000 (Service Pack 1) supports JDK 17, but with specific configuration requirements. For more information, see Limitation in JDK 17 support.

Other system requirements

ZooKeeper

You must install the ZooKeeper service available with your CDP Private Cloud Base cluster.

Python

When deploying CFM on RHEL 8 and using Cloudera Manager with Python 2, you need to specify a symbolic link to python2.

ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python

Number of cores

Four cores per NiFi node is the minimum number of cores required by Cloudera to be supported. Cloudera recommends eight cores per NiFi node as it usually provides the best starting point for the most common use cases.