Azure environments overview

Learn about environments on Azure in Cloudera on cloud, including requirements you must meet before activating your environment in Cloudera Data Warehouse.

The Cloudera environment is closely related to the virtual private network in your cloud provider account. Registering an environment with Cloudera Management Console provides Cloudera with access to your cloud provider account and identifies resources in your account that Cloudera services can access, including Cloudera Data Warehouse. A single environment is contained within a single cloud provider region, so all resources deployed by Cloudera are deployed within that region within one specific virtual network. After you have registered an environment with Cloudera Management Console you can activate the environment in Cloudera Data Warehouse. Next, you create Database Catalogs, which enables Cloudera Data Warehouse to access the associated Data Lake. Finally, you can create Virtual Warehouses in Cloudera Data Warehouse that use the Database Catalog and its underlying environment.

Ranger Authorization is not enabled by default in Azure environment. You must enable RAZ as described in the Introduction to RAZ on Azure environments.

The following diagram shows the components of an Azure environment:

For more information about Azure environments in Cloudera, see the links in the "Related information" section at the bottom of this page.