Question What steps should a Cloudera Altus administrator take if a Cloudera Altus end-user leaves their company, or should no longer have access to Cloudera Altus? Answer If a user leaves their company, a Cloudera Altus administrator will need to delete the Cloudera Altus CLI Keys and remove user access from the Web UI to prevent unauthorized access. ... View more

Question Where are Cloudera Altus Clusters created and how are Data Engineering jobs run? Answer Clusters are spun up and reside within customer's public cloud account. For example, in case of AWS, EC2 instances are spun-up and managed by Cloudera Altus in the subnet and VPC specified by customer created environment; These clusters handle specific Data Engineering workloads (Hive-on-Spark, Spark-on-YARN, MR2 on YARN, etc).  ... View more

Question What are the various Cloudera Altus interfaces available and how can I access them? Answer Cloudera Altus is accessible via command line interface (CLI), console / graphical user interface (GUI) and via a software development kit (SDK) for use with Java.   The Cloudera Altus Web console is available via: https://console.altus.cloudera.com/   Instructions for installing the Cloudera Altus CLI is available here (link to Cloudera Altus CLI Documentation)   Additional details for the Cloudera Altus SDK and coding examples are available here (link to Cloudera Altus SDK)   Additional details on interfaces are available in the Cloudera Altus Interfaces section of the Cloudera Altus Documentation.   ... View more

Question Are there any current limitations with Cloudera Altus? Answer Default limit for commercial have the following default soft-limits:   Up to 10 active clusters at any given time Limit of 100 users Limit of 10 defined Cloudera Altus environments If there are needs required that will utilize beyond the current soft-limits, please reach out to Cloudera Support to request an increase.   Users that are given access as part of a free trial will have no ability to create additional users and may have smaller limits.   ... View more

Question Can I change an environment once created in Cloudera Altus? Answer By design, Cloudera Altus environments are not modifiable once created. To make a change to the environment, we recommend to clone the environment into a new one with the appropriate changes. ... View more

Question Is logging enabled by default for jobs run in Cloudera Altus Data Engineering? Answer While we recommend enabling logging for troubleshooting Data Engineering jobs, It is not enabled by default.     Details for enabling logging within the Cloudera Altus Environment Setup is available in the online doc Cloudera Altus Environment Setup: https://console.altus.cloudera.com/support/documentation.html?type=topics&page=ag_dataengr_get_start_env_setup NOTE: If logging is not enabled, cluster bundles that are automatically generated during shutdown of a Cloudera Altus-managed cluster will be lost. ... View more