Register an AWS environment from CDP UI

Once you’ve met the AWS cloud provider requirements, register your AWS environment.

Before you begin

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

Required role: EnvironmentCreator

Steps

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

   

2. On the Register Environment 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 Amazon.
   Credential (Required)
   Select Credential	Select an existing credential or select Create new credential. For instructions on how to create a credential, refer to Creating a role-based credential.

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.
   Fine-grained access control on S3
   Enable Ranger authorization for AWS S3 Identity	Enable this if you would like to use Fine-grained access control. Next, from the Select AWS IAM role for Ranger authorizer dropdown, select the DATALAKE_ADMIN_ROLE IAM role created in Minimal setup for cloud storage.
   Data Access and Audit
   Assumer Instance Profile (Required)	Select the IDBROKER_ROLE instance profile created in Minimal setup for cloud storage.
   Storage Location Base (Required)	Provide the S3 location created for data storage in Minimal setup for cloud storage.
   Data Access Role (Required)	Select the DATALAKE_ADMIN_ROLE IAM role created in Minimal setup for cloud storage.
   Ranger Audit Role (Required)	Select the RANGER_AUDIT_ROLE IAM role created in Minimal 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.
   Enable Compute Cluster	Enable Compute Clusters if you would like to deploy a containerized platform on Kubernetes for data services and shared services.

5. Click on Advanced Options to make additional configurations for your Data Lake. The following options are available:

   Parameter	Description
   Network and Availability
   Enable Multiple Availability Zones for Data Lake	Click the Enable Multiple Availability Zones for Data Lake toggle button to enable multi-AZ for the Data Lake. This option is disabled by default and is only available when a Medium Duty Data Lake is selected. Refer to Deploying CDP in multiple AWS availability zones.
   Hardware and Storage	For each host group you can specify an instance type. For more information on instance types, see Amazon EC2 instance types.
   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 that you would like to use for CDP. If you would like to use a specific existing virtual network, the virtual network must be located in the selected region.
   Customer-managed Keys
   Enable Customer-Managed Keys	Enable this if you would like to provide a Customer-Managed Key (CMK) to encrypt environment's disks and databases. Next, under Select Encryption Key, select an existing CMK. For more information, refer to Customer managed encryption keys.
   Select Encryption Key	Select an existing CMK.
   Network
   Select Network (Required)	You have two options: Select the existing virtual network where you would like to provision all CDP resources. Refer to VPC and subnet. Select Create new network to have a new network with three subnets created. One subnet is created for each availability zone assuming three AZs per region; If a region has two AZs instead of three, then still three subnets are created, two in the same AZ.
   Select Subnets (Required)	This option is only available if you choose to use an existing network. Multiple subnets must be selected and CDP distributes resources evenly within the subnets.
   Network CIDR (Required)	This option is only available if you select to create a new network. If you selected to create a new network, provide Network CIDR that determines the range of private IPs that EC2 instances will use. This must be a valid private IP CIDR IP in IPv4 range. For example 10.10.0.0/16 are valid IPs. /16 is required to allow for enough IP addresses.
   Create Private Subnets	This option is only available if you select to have a new network and subnets created. Is is turned on by default so that private subnets are created in addition to public subnets. If you disable it, only public subnets will be created.
   Create Private Endpoints	This option is only available if you select to have a new network and subnets created. It is disabled by default. Enable this option to use private endpoints instead of public endpoints for the following services: Amazon EC2 Amazon ECR - api and dkr Amazon EFS Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL AWS Auto Scaling AWS CloudFormation AWS ELB AWS S3 AWS STS
   Enable Public Endpoint Access Gateway	When CCM is enabled, you can optionally enable Public Endpoint Access Gateway to provide secure connectivity to UIs and APIs in Data Lake and Data Hub clusters deployed using private networking. If you are using your existing VPC, under Select Endpoint Access Gateway Subnets, select the public subnets for which you would like to use the gateway. The number of subnets must be the same as under Select Subnets and the availability zones must match. For more information, refer to Public Endpoint Access Gateway documentation.
   Proxies
   Select Proxy Configuration	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)	This determines inbound security group settings that allow connections to the Data Lake and Data Hub clusters from your organization’s computers. You have two options: Create new security groups - Allows you to provide custom CIDR IP range for all new security groups that will be created for the Data Lake and Data Hub clusters so that users from your organization can access cluster UIs and SSH to the nodes. This must be a valid CIDR IP in IPv4 range. For example: 192.168.27.0/24 allows access from 192.168.27.0 through 192.168.27.255. You can specify multiple CIDR IP ranges separated with a comma. For example: 192.168.27.0/24,192.168.28.0/24 If you use this setting, several security groups will get created: one for each Data Lake host group the Data Lake and one for each host group), one for each FreeIPA host group, and one for RDS; Furthermore, the security group settings specified will be automatically used for Data Hub, Data Warehouse, and Cloudera AI clusters created as part of the environment. Provide existing security groups (Only available for an existing VPC) - Allows you to select two existing security groups, one for Knox-installed nodes and another for all other nodes. If you select this option, refer to Security groups to ensure that you open all ports required for your users to access environment resources.
   Kubernetes
   Select Private Kubernetes Cluster or provide Authorized IP Ranges	If you have enabled Compute Clusters, you have the following options to configure the necessary networking information for the Kubernetes cluster: Enable Private Kubernetes Cluster to create a private cluster that blocks all access to the API Server endpoint. Provide the CIDRs to the Kubernetes API Server Authorized IP Ranges field to specify a set of IP ranges that will be allowed to access the Kubernetes API server. You need to provide the advanced configurations only once when creating your environment. The configurations will be applied to all compute clusters in the environment.
   Worker Node Subnets	Uses the same set of subnets provided in Network section. You have the option to not use all of the previously provided subnets.
   SSH Settings
   New or existing SSH public key (Required)	You have two options for providing a public SSH key: Select a key that already exists on your AWS account within the specific region that you would like to use. Upload a public key directly from your computer.
   Add tags	You can optionally add tags to be created for your resources on AWS. Refer to Defining custom tags.

8. Click on Advanced Options to make additional configurations for the FreeIPA cluster. The following options are available:

   Parameter	Description
   Network and Availability
   Enable Multiple Availability Zones for Data Lake	Click the Enable Multiple Availability Zones for Data Lake toggle button to enable multi-AZ for the FreeIPA cluster. Refer to Deploying CDP in multiple AWS availability zones.
   Hardware and Storage	For each host group you can specify an instance type. For more information on instance types, see Amazon EC2 instance types.
   Cluster Extensions
   Recipes	You can optionally select and attach previously registered recipes to run on a specific FreeIPA host group. For more information, see Recipes.

9. Click Next.
10. On the Storage page, provide the following information:

    Parameter	Description
    Logs
    Logger Instance Profile (Required)	Select the LOG_ROLE instance profile created in Minimal setup for cloud storage.
    Logs Location Base (Required)	Provide the S3 location created for log storage in Minimal setup for cloud storage.
    Backup Location Base	Provide the S3 location created for FreeIPA and Data Lake backups in Minimal 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 Cloudera Observability. For more information, refer to Enabling workload analytics and logs collection.
    Enable Deployment Cluster Logs Collection	When this option is enabled. the logs generated during deployments will be automatically sent to Cloudera. For more information, refer to Enabling workload analytics and logs collection.

11. Click on 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