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HDF apache nifi best practice

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Hi all,

can anybody share what is the best practice to install HDF

it is install inside HDP or on standalone server ?

if HDF install on standalone server, how to connect to hdfs on the HDP cluster?

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HDF has processor for connecting to HDFS (listHDFS, fetchHDFS, GetHDFSSequenceFile, putHDFS and getHDFS)

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hi mclark,

thanks, but what should i do if i try to connect to remote HDFS?

do i need to install hadoop in my HDF server, to get hadoop file system configurtaion?

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provide core-site.xml and hdfs-site.xml for the remote cluster @cokorda putra susila

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@cokorda putra susila NiFi already includes the HDFS core libraries. So no need to install Hadoop on the NiFi server. Just need to the config files (i.e - core-site.xml) as Artem suggests.