Hi, Can Ambari be used to create and manage two different clusters, probably with different hardware profiles, configurations etc? In some of the earlier posts, its mentioned as a future scope, but not sure if it is implemented in the recent 2.x releases? Thanks ... View more

Hi, Just wondering what is the best way to compare configurations for two clusters? Is there any feature available on Ambari UI to do the same? At present I think Ambari cannot support managing multiple clusters. So not sure if this would be possible at all. Is exporting the cluster configurations as blueprints and then comparing them manually, the only option available? Or are there any better ways to do the same? Thanks in advance. ... View more

Following the security article (https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/17336/choosing-kerberos-approach-for-hadoop-cluster-in-a.html#comment-26641) , there seems to be three different options to enable kerberos for Hadoop cluster. Just wondering which is the recommended approach out of the three from Hortonworks. 1. Use an MIT KDC specific to Hadoop cluster - automated keytab management using Ambari 2. Use an existing Enterprise Active Directory - Manual setup 3. Using existing Enterprise AD with automated management using Ambari Definitely option 2 seems to be less preferable than 1 and 3. However, wondering what are the factors to consider when choosing either 1 or 3. ... View more