Activating Azure environments
To use an Azure environment for Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) Public Cloud you must first activate it.
When you activate an environment, CDP creates an AKS cluster to host Kubernetes-based
resources. The underlying compute, network resources are managed by Azure, including the
following ones:
CDP supports the following Azure virtual machines and their corresponding compute instance
types (Hive and Impala executors), which you select during environment activation:- Resource group
- Compute instances, which are virtual machine scale sets
- Load balancer(s)
- Public IP address(es)
- Network security group
- Disk(s)
Azure VM | Processor Type | Usage |
---|---|---|
Standard_E16_v3 |
Intel | Compute |
Standard_E16ds_v4 | Intel | Compute (default) |
Standard_E16ads_v5 | AMD | Compute |
Standard_E16ds_v5 | Intel | Compute |
Standard_D8s_v4 | Intel | Shared services (default) |
Standard_D8as_v5 | Intel | Shared services, used with AMD compute instance Standard_E16ads_v5 |
- Obtain the DWAdmin role.
- Review the Azure environments requirements checklist.