Chapter 15. Configuring Linux for Hadoop

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

—Henry David Thoreau

The installation and management of a Hadoop ecosystem is a journey, not a destination. The Hadoop ecosystem is constantly evolving; customers are looking at using Hadoop-as-a-Service and aligning their big data strategies with their cloud strategies. Customers are going to leverage automated installs with different management tools, but someone still needs to make sure all the individual components, such as the Linux operating system, are installed and optimized for running Hadoop and its components. Hadoop now runs under one set of code that can run on Windows or Linux. In this chapter ...

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