What this book covers

Chapter 1, Setting Up Hadoop Cluster – from Hardware to Distribution, reviews the main Hadoop components and approaches for choosing and sizing cluster hardware. It also touches on the topic of various Hadoop distributions.

Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring Hadoop, provides step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring the main Hadoop components: NameNode (including High Availability), JobTracker, DataNodes, and TaskTrackers.

Chapter 3, Configuring the Hadoop Ecosystem, reviews configuration procedures for Sqoop, Hive, and Impala.

Chapter 4, Securing Hadoop Installation, provides guidelines to securing various Hadoop components. It also provides an overview of configuring Kerberos with Hadoop.

Chapter 5, Monitoring Hadoop Cluster, guides you to getting your cluster ready for production usage.

Chapter 6, Deploying Hadoop to the Cloud, reviews using Hadoop in virtualized environments, including Elastic MapReduce and using Whirr.