Installing Cloudera Director Server and Client on Azure

To install Cloudera Director, perform the following tasks. You must be either running as root or using sudo to perform these tasks.

RHEL 7 and CentOS 7

  1. SSH to the Azure instance you created for Cloudera Director.
  2. Install a supported version of the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) on the Cloudera Director host. Currently, Cloudera Director supports JDK versions 7 and 8. For download and installation information, see Java SE Downloads. 
    sudo yum localinstall jdk-version-linux-x64.rpm
  3. Add the Cloudera Director repository to the package manager: 
    cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo wget "http://archive.cloudera.com/director/redhat/7/x86_64/director/cloudera-director.repo"
  4. Install Cloudera Director server and client by running the following command: 
    sudo yum install cloudera-director-server cloudera-director-client
  5. Start the Cloudera Director server by running the following command: 
    sudo service cloudera-director-server start
  6. Disable and stop the firewall with the following commands: 
    sudo systemctl disable firewalld 
sudo systemctl stop firewalld

RHEL 6 and CentOS 6

  1. SSH to the Azure instance you created for Cloudera Director.
  2. Install a supported version of the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) on the Cloudera Director host. Currently, Cloudera Director supports JDK versions 7 and 8. For download and installation information, see Java SE Downloads. 
    sudo yum localinstall jdk-version-linux-x64.rpm
  3. Add the Cloudera Director repository to the package manager: 
    cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo wget "http://archive.cloudera.com/director/redhat/6/x86_64/director/cloudera-director.repo"
  4. Install Cloudera Director server and client by running the following command: 
    sudo yum install cloudera-director-server cloudera-director-client
  5. Start the Cloudera Director server by running the following command: 
    sudo service cloudera-director-server start
  6. Save the existing iptables rule set and disable the firewall: 
    sudo service iptables save 
sudo chkconfig iptables off 
sudo service iptables stop

Sample Configurations

Three sample configuration files are available on the Cloudera GitHub site. You can modify these sample director configuration files to create clusters using the Cloudera Director CLI.

  • azure.simple.conf: This is a simple Cloudera Director configuration that creates a Cloudera Manager node and a four-node cluster (one master and three workers).
  • azure.reference.conf: This is a reference Cloudera Director configuration that creates an eight-node cluster (three masters and five workers) with high availability (HA) enabled.
  • azure.kerberos.conf: This is the same Cloudera Director configuration as the azure.reference.conf configuration, but with Kerberos enabled.