Installing Cloudera Manager and CDH

This section introduces options for installing Cloudera Manager, CDH, and managed services. You can install:
  • Cloudera Manager, CDH, and managed services in a Cloudera Manager deployment. This is the recommended method for installing CDH and managed services.
  • CDH 5 into an unmanaged deployment.

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Cloudera Manager Deployment

A Cloudera Manager deployment consists of the following software components:
  • Oracle JDK
  • Cloudera Manager Server and Agent packages
  • Supporting database software
  • CDH and managed service software
This section describes the three main installation paths for creating a new Cloudera Manager deployment and the criteria for choosing an installation path. If your cluster already has an installation of a previous version of Cloudera Manager, follow the instructions in Upgrading Cloudera Manager.
The Cloudera Manager installation paths share some common phases, but the variant aspects of each path support different user and cluster host requirements:
  • Demonstration and proof of concept deployments - There are two installation options:
    • Installation Path A - Automated Installation by Cloudera Manager - Cloudera Manager automates the installation of the Oracle JDK, Cloudera Manager Server, embedded PostgreSQL database, and Cloudera Manager Agent, CDH, and managed service software on cluster hosts, and configures databases for the Cloudera Manager Server and Hive Metastore and optionally for Cloudera Management Service roles. This path is recommended for demonstration and proof of concept deployments, but is not recommended for production deployments because its not intended to scale and may require database migration as your cluster grows. To use this method, server and cluster hosts must satisfy the following requirements:
      • Provide the ability to log in to the Cloudera Manager Server host using a root account or an account that has password-less sudo permission.
      • Allow the Cloudera Manager Server host to have uniform SSH access on the same port to all hosts. See Networking and Security Requirements for further information.
      • All hosts must have access to standard package repositories and either archive.cloudera.com or a local repository with the necessary installation files.
    • Installation Path B - Manual Installation Using Cloudera Manager Packages - you install the Oracle JDK and Cloudera Manager Server, and embedded PostgreSQL database packages on the Cloudera Manager Server host. You have two options for installing Oracle JDK, Cloudera Manager Agent, CDH, and managed service software on cluster hosts: manually install it yourself or use Cloudera Manager to automate installation. However, in order for Cloudera Manager to automate installation of Cloudera Manager Agent packages or CDH and managed service software, cluster hosts must satisfy the following requirements:
      • Allow the Cloudera Manager Server host to have uniform SSH access on the same port to all hosts. See Networking and Security Requirements for further information.
      • All hosts must have access to standard package repositories and either archive.cloudera.com or a local repository with the necessary installation files.
  • Production deployments - require you to first manually install and configure a production database for the Cloudera Manager Server and Hive Metastore. There are two installation options:
    • Installation Path B - Manual Installation Using Cloudera Manager Packages - you install the Oracle JDK and Cloudera Manager Server packages on the Cloudera Manager Server host. You have two options for installing Oracle JDK, Cloudera Manager Agent, CDH, and managed service software on cluster hosts: manually install it yourself or use Cloudera Manager to automate installation. However, in order for Cloudera Manager to automate installation of Cloudera Manager Agent packages or CDH and managed service software, cluster hosts must satisfy the following requirements:
      • Allow the Cloudera Manager Server host to have uniform SSH access on the same port to all hosts. See Networking and Security Requirements for further information.
      • All hosts must have access to standard package repositories and either archive.cloudera.com or a local repository with the necessary installation files.
    • Installation Path C - Manual Installation Using Cloudera Manager Tarballs - you install the Oracle JDK, Cloudera Manager Server, and Cloudera Manager Agent software as tarballs and use Cloudera Manager to automate installation of CDH and managed service software as parcels.

Unmanaged Deployment

In an unmanaged deployment, you are responsible for managing all phases of the lifecycle of CDH and managed service components on each host: installation, configuration, and service lifecycle operations such as start and stop. This section describes alternatives for installing CDH 5 software in an unmanaged deployment.

  • Command-line methods:
    • Download and install the CDH 5 "1-click Install" package
    • Add the CDH 5 repository
    • Build your own CDH 5 repository
    If you use one of these command-line methods, the first (downloading and installing the "1-click Install" package) is recommended in most cases because it is simpler than building or adding a repository.
  • Tarball You can download a tarball from CDH downloads. Keep the following points in mind:
    • Installing CDH 5 from a tarball installs YARN.
    • In CDH 5, there is no separate tarball for MRv1. Instead, the MRv1 binaries, examples, and so on, are delivered in the Hadoop tarball. The scripts for running MRv1 are in the bin-mapreduce1 directory in the tarball, and the MRv1 examples are in the examples-mapreduce1 directory.
    See Installing the Latest CDH 5 Release for detailed instructions for each of these options.