Deploying a Hadoop Cluster

Learn how to tackle big data problems with your own Hadoop clusters! In this course, you’ll deploy Hadoop clusters in the cloud and use them to gain insights from large datasets.

Using massive datasets to guide decisions is becoming more and more important for modern businesses. Hadoop and MapReduce are fundamental tools for working with big data. By knowing how to deploy your own Hadoop clusters, you’ll be able to start exploring big data on your own.

Deploying a Hadoop cluster on Amazon EC2

Deploy a small Hadoop cluster on Amazon EC2 instances.

Deploy a Hadoop cluster with Ambari

Use Apache Ambari to automatically deploy a larger, more powerful Hadoop cluster.

On-demand Hadoop clusters

Use Amazon’s ElasticMapReduce to deploy a Hadoop cluster on-demand.

Project: Analyzing a big dataset with Hadoop and MapReduce

Use Hadoop and MapReduce to analyze a 150 GB dataset of Wikipedia page views.