At Cloudera, we believe that Cloudera Manager is the best way to install, configure, manage, and monitor your Apache Hadoop stack. Of course, most users prefer not to take our word for it — they want to know how Cloudera Manager works under the covers, first.
In this post, I’ll explain some of its inner workings.
The Vocabulary of Cloudera Manager
The image below illustrates the basic nouns and relationships of Cloudera Manager:
A “deployment”