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Creating a Project with Legacy Engine Variants

Projects create an independent working environment to hold your code, configuration, and libraries for your analysis. This topic describes how to create a project with Legacy Engine variants in Cloudera AI.

  1. Go to Cloudera AI and on the left sidebar, click Projects.
  2. Click New Project.
  3. If you are a member of a team, from the drop-down menu, select the Account under which you want to create this project. If there is only one account on the deployment, you will not see this option.
  4. Enter a Project Name.
  5. Select Project Visibility from one of the following options.
    • Private - Only project collaborators can view or edit the project.
    • Team - If the project is created under a team account, all members of the team can view the project. Only explicitly-added collaborators can edit the project.
    • Public - All authenticated users of Cloudera AI will be able to view the project. Collaborators will be able to edit the project.
  6. Under Initial Setup, you can either create a blank project, or select one of the following sources for your project files.

    • Built-in Templates - Template projects contain example code that can help you get started with Cloudera AI. They are available in R, Python, PySpark, and Scala. Using a template project is not required, but it helps you start using Cloudera AI right away.

    • Custom Templates - Site administrators can add template projects that are customized for their organization's use-cases. For details, see Custom Template Projects.

    • Local - If you have an existing project on your local disk, use this option to upload compressed files or folders to Cloudera AI.

    • Git - If you already use Git for version control and collaboration, you can continue to do so with Cloudera AI. Specifying a Git URL will clone the project into Cloudera AI. To use a password-protected Git repository, see Creating a project from a password-protected Git repo.

  7. Click Create Project. After the project is created, you can see your project files and the list of jobs defined in your project.
    Note that as part of the project filesystem, Cloudera AI also creates the following .gitignore file. 
    R
node_modules
*.pyc
.*
!.gitignore
  8. (Optional) To work with team members on a project, add them as collaborators to the project.