Thanks for the tip on the CM API, wasn't aware it had one. Knowing that little bit I was able to find an example that uses Ansible: https://github.com/ymc-geko/ansible-cdh-cluster. There's an article discussing it here as well: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/08/how-to-install-cloudera-manager-and-search-with-ansible/. ... View more