One other point, to build and manage clusters programatically, take a look at the Python Client API    For background and general information and general concepts and API documentation.   http://cloudera.github.io/cm_api/   For functional client setup for using examples:   https://github.com/cloudera/cm_api   And the "auto deploy" example within it (you must set up the client, above before you can use the example.   https://github.com/cloudera/cm_api/tree/master/python/examples/auto-deploy     ... View more