Chapter 2. My First Oozie Job

In this chapter, we will dive in the world of Oozie by running our first Oozie job. We will also set up Hue, which will allow us to edit Oozie Workflows from a graphical user interface. We will be using the Hortonworks VirtualBox machine to do all our projects throughout the book.

In this chapter, we will do the following:

  • Install and configure Hue Oozie Workflow editor
  • Run our first Oozie Workflow job
  • Understand the concept of Workflow, Coordinator, and Bundles
  • Understand Oozie Fs actions
  • Use Oozie console to see the job status
  • Use the Oozie command line to get the job status

Installing and configuring Hue

The Hortonworks virtual machine already has one version of Hue running, but that is very old. We will install the latest ...

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