Ah, okay, I understand now. Steps are already given in the Ambari Upgrade guide, though some of them have many details, and talk about other OS like Suse and Ubuntu, and talk about Kerberos yes/no, Ganglia yes/no and so on. You can extract only steps applicable to your cluster from Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of the guide: Chapter 2. Getting Ready to Upgrade Ambari and HDP Chapter 3. Upgrading Ambari Chapter 4. Upgrading HDP and then as you proceed with the upgrade you can mark completed steps, and for each step you can write down any comments/observations to refer to them later. ... View more