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Supported Deployment Scenarios for Cloudera

This section describes supported deployment scenarios for Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Edition in a customer-managed Cloudera cluster.

Supported Cloudera Distributions

For this release, the Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform supports the following Cloudera versions.

Note

Cloudera 6.x and later requires use of native Hadoop libraries from the cluster.

  • Cloudera 6.3.x (recommended)

  • Cloudera 6.2.x

  • Cloudera Data Platform 7.1

Notes:

  • Update Date: October 29, 2021

  • The Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform supports all variants of patch or point releases (X.Y.* and X.Y.*.* releases) through the Hadoop vendor's backwards compatibility policy.

  • For individual versions of Hadoop components (such as HDFS, Spark, and Hive), the Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform supports the component version that is bundled with the vendor's package for the supported Hadoop distribution.

  • For more information on how to set up your Hadoop distribution, please consult the documentation provided with your distribution or contact your distribution vendor.

Supported Deployments

Note

Unless otherwise noted, all items listed below are supported across all Hadoop distribution versions listed above. Unlisted items are not supported. Please contact Alteryx Support or your sales representative for items not listed here.

Deployment System

Note

The Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform software must be installed on a gateway node of the Cloudera cluster. For more information, see System Requirements in the Planning Guide.

Item

Description

Physical On Premise Machines

Supported.

VMWare / VXServer

Supported.

Note

Deployment to an Amazon EC2 is supported. See Supported Deployment Scenarios for AWS.

Running Environment

Item

Description

Spark

Supported.

Trifacta Photon

Supported.

Platform Security

Item

Description

HDFS File Permissions

Supported.

HDFS Privileges

Supported through Sentry.

Hive Privileges

Supported through Sentry.

Kerberos-Enabled Hadoop Cluster

Supported.

Secure User Impersonation

Supported.

High Availability

Item

Description

Name Node, Resource Manager, HttpFS

Supported.

Metadata Publishing

Item

Description

Cloudera Navigator

Not supported.

Hive Publishing

Supported

Redshift Publishing

Supported

Supported File Formats

See Supported File Formats in the User Guide.

Connectivity

Hadoop Connectivity

The Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta platform supports connectivity for execution to the following Hadoop environments for this vendor's distributions. Connectivity exceptions are listed below:

Running Environment

HDFS Reader

HDFS Writer

Hive Reader w/ HiveServer2

Spark

Supported.

Supported.

Supported.

Profiling Environment

HDFS Reader

HDFS Writer

Profiling on Spark

Supported.

Supported.

External Connectivity

Storage Platform

HDFS Reader

HDFS Writer

S3

Supported.

Supported.

Storage Platform

Amazon S3 Reader

Amazon S3 Writer

Spark Profiling

Supported.

Supported.

Notes

  • none.