Environments

In Cloudera, a private cloud environment is a logical entity that represents the association of your Cloudera on premises user account with multiple compute resources using which you can provision and manage workloads such as Cloudera Data Warehouse, Cloudera Data Engineering, and Cloudera AI. You can register as many environments as you require.

Registering an environment provides Cloudera with access to your user account and identifies the resources in your user account that Cloudera services can access or provision. For Cloudera on premises environments, resources include compute clusters such as Kubernetes as well as Data Lake clusters in Cloudera. Compute workloads are deployed within these environments.

A workload receives access to a Kubernetes cluster for compute purposes and a Data Lake cluster for storage, metadata, and security purposes within the environment in which it is deployed. Administrators can define user permissions and set resource quotas in each environment.