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Register a GCP environment from CDP UI

Once you’ve met the Google Cloud cloud provider requirements, register your GCP environment.

Before you begin

This assumes that you have already fulfilled the environment prerequisites described in GCP requirements.

Required role: EnvironmentCreator

Steps

  1. Navigate to the Management Console > Environments > Register environment.

  2. On the On the Register Environment page, provide the following information:page, provide the following information:
    Parameter Description
    General Information
    Environment Name (Required) Enter a name for your environment. The name:
    • Must be between 5 and 28 characters long.
    • Can only include lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens.
    • Must start with a lowercase letter.
    Description Enter a description for your environment.
    Select Cloud Provider (Required) Select Google Cloud.
    Google Cloud Platform Credential (Required)
    Select Credential Select an existing credential or select Create new credential.

    For instructions on how to create a credential for Google Cloud, refer to Create a provisioning credential for GCP.
  3. Click Next.
  4. On the Data Access and Data Lake Scaling page, provide the following information:
    Parameter Description
    Data Lake Settings
    Data Lake Name (Required) Enter a name for the Data Lake cluster that will be created for this environment. The name:
    • Must be between 5 and 100 characters long
    • Must contain lowercase letters
    • Cannot contain uppercase letters
    • Must start with a letter
    • Can only include the following accepted characters are: a-z, 0-9, -.
    Data Lake Version (Required) Select Cloudera Runtime version that should be deployed for your Data Lake. The latest stable version is used by default.

    All Data Hub clusters provisioned within this Data Lake will be using the same Runtime version.

    Note: Google Cloud environments can only be provisioned in CDP with Runtime version 7.2.8 or newer.
    Data Access and Audit
    Assumer Service Account (Required) Select the IDBroker service account created in Minimum setup for cloud storage.
    Storage Location Base (Required) Select the Google Storage location created for data in Minimum setup for cloud storage.
    Data Access Service Account (Required) Select the Data Lake Admin service account created in Minimum setup for cloud storage.
    Ranger Audit Service Account (Required) Select the Ranger Audit service account created in Minimum setup for cloud storage.
    IDBroker Mappings We recommend that you leave this out and set it up after registering your environment as part of Onboarding CDP users and groups for cloud storage.
    Scale (Required) Select Data Lake scale. By default, “Light Duty” is used. For more information on Data Lake scale, refer to Data Lake scale.
  5. Click on Advanced Options to make additional configurations for your Data Lake. The following options are available:
    Parameter Description
    Hardware and Storage For each host group you can specify an instance type. For more information on instance types, see Machine type families.
    Cluster Extensions
    Recipes You can optionally select and attach previously registered recipes to run on a specific Data Lake host group. For more information, see Recipes.
  6. Click Next.
  7. On the Region, Networking and Security page, provide the following information:
    Parameter Description
    Region
    Select Region (Required) Select the region where your VPC network is located.
    Select Zone (Required) Select a zone within the selected region.
    Network
    Use shared VPC This option is disabled by default. Enable this if you would like to use your existing shared VPC. Next enter:
    • Host project ID
    • Network name
    • Subnet name(s). If providing multiple, provide a comma separated list.
    Select Network (Required) Select the existing VPC network that you created as a prerequisite in the VPC network and subnets step. All CDP resources will be provisioned into this network.
    Select Subnets (Required) Select at least one existing subnet.
    Create Public IPs This option is disabled by default when CCM is enabled and enabled by default when CCM is disabled.
    Proxies Select a proxy configuration if previously registered. For more information refer to Setting up a proxy server.
    Security Access Settings
    Select Security Access Type (Required) You have two options:
    • Do not create firewall rule: If you are using a shared VPC you can set the firewall rules directly on the VPC. If you did so, you can select this option.
    • Provide existing firewall rules: If not all of your firewall rules are set directly on the VPC, provide the previously created firewall rules for SSH an UI access. You should select two existing firewall rules, one for Knox gateway-installed nodes and another for all other nodes. You may select the same firewall rule in both places if needed.

    For information on required ports, see Firewall rules.
    SSH Settings
    New SSH public key (Required) Upload a public key directly from your computer.

    Note: CDP does not use this SSH key. The matching private key can be used by your CDP administrator for root-level access to the instances provisioned for the Data Lake and Data Hub.
    Add tags You can optionally add tags to be created for your resources on GCP. Refer to Defining custom tags.
  8. Click on Advanced Options to make additional configurations for FreeIPA. The following options are available:
    Parameter Description
    Hardware and Storage For each host group you can specify an instance type. For more information on instance types, see Machine type families.
    Cluster Extensions
    Recipes You can optionally select and attach previously registered recipes to run on FreeIPA nodes. For more information, see Recipes.
  9. Click Next.
  10. On the Storage page, provide the following information:
    Parameter Description
    Logs
    Logger Service Account (Required) Select the Logger service account created in Minimum setup for cloud storage.
    Logs Location Base (Required) Select the Google Storage location created for logs in Minimum setup for cloud storage.
    Backup Location Base Select the Google Storage location created for FreeIPA backups in Minimum setup for cloud storage. If not provided, the default Backup Location Base uses the Logs Location Base.
    Telemetry
    Enable Workload Analytics Enables Cloudera Observability support for workload clusters created within this environment. When this setting is enabled, diagnostic information about job and query execution is sent to the Cloudera Observability.
    Enable Deployment Cluster Logs Collection When this option is enabled. the logs generated during deployments will be automatically sent to Cloudera.
  11. Click Register Environment to trigger environment registration.
  12. The environment creation takes about 60 minutes. The creation of the FreeIPA server and Data Lake cluster is triggered. You can monitor the progress from the web UI. Once the environment creation has been completed, its status will change to “Running”.

After you finish

After your environment is running, perform the following steps: