My blood recently turned from green to blue (after the Hortonworks-Cloudera merger) and I couldn't be more excited to play with new toys. What I am particularly excited about is Cloudera Data Science Workbench. But, like in everything I do, I am very lazy. So here is a quick tutorial to install Altus Director, and use it to deploy a CDH 5.15 + CDSW cluster.
In the name of laziness I also recommend to add a 0-65535 rule from your personal IP.
Your VPC should have an internet gateway associated with it (you could do it without, but would require you manually pulling the CM/CDH software down and make internal repositories within your subnet)
Do not forget to open all traffic to your security group as described here. Your deployment will not work otherwise.
Launch a Redhat 7.3 instance
You can either search communities AMIs, or use this one: ami-6871a115
You can follow the bootstrapping of the cluster both on command line or in the Director interface; once done, you can connect to Cloudera Manager using: http://your_manager_instance_ip:7180/
Step 5: Configure CDSW domain with your IP
Cloudera Data Science Workbench uses DNS. The correct approach is to setup a wildcard DNS record is required, as described here.
However, for testing purposes I used nip.io. The only parameter to change is the Cloudera Data Science Workbench Domain, from cdsw.my-domain.com as the conf file sets it up to, to cdsw.[YOUR_AWS_PUBLIC_IP].nip.io, as depicted below:
Restart the CDSW service, then you should be able to access CDSW by clicking on the CDSW Web UI link. Register for a new account and you will have access to CDSW:
The above was originally posted in the Community Help track. On Sun May 19 16:49 UTC 2019, the HCC moderation staff moved it to the Cloud & Operations Track. The Community Help Track is intended for questions about using the HCC site itself.