Google Chrome, SPNEGO, and WebHDFS on Hadoop

I’ve previously noted that we’re using Kerberos to handle the authentication on our Hadoop clusters.  One of the features that we had previously not had because of configuration issues, was the ability to use WebHDFS to browse around the cluster.  With our latest cluster, we figured out the right incantation of Kerberos and SPNEGO configurations […]

Oozie Install, why do you hate me?

We’ve been slowly migrating towards managing our Hadoop infrastructure with Cloudera Manager (CM). Our latest cluster is entirely managed via CM, enabling us to easily wire up features that we previously had no need for.  One of the new features we wanted to work with was Oozie. No problem, right?  The process is pretty simple. […]