@Eyad Garelnabi: There is a document called "Ambari Upgrade Best Practices," http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.5.3/bk_ambari-upgrade-best-practices/content/index.html, that was developed with folks in the field, and the issues that many of our customers face. It's a relatively new document, and I hope you will find it useful. ... View more

Yes! We still support Hue. Aside from the Release Notes, here are some other pointers in Hortonworks documentation that you might find useful: http://dev.hortonworks.com.s3.amazonaws.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2-trunk/bk_command-line-installation/content/installing_hue.html http://dev.hortonworks.com.s3.amazonaws.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2-trunk/bk_security/content/config_ldap_hue.html http://dev.hortonworks.com.s3.amazonaws.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2-trunk/bk_security/content/configure_ssl_for_hue.html Please let me know if you have any questions, re: the documentation and if we can help in any other way. ... View more

@Kent Baxley: We have incorporated this and related into into a new chapter in the HDFS Administration Guide, called Backing Up HDFS Metadata. See http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.5.0/bk_hdfs-administration/content/back_up_hdfs_meta.html.: ... View more

@Artem Ervits: Release Eng has copied the 2.3.6 Companion files to the correct location. ... View more

@Neeraj Sabharwal There is a new doc, re: HDP deployment on Azure: http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.4.0/bk_HDP_AzureSetup/content/ch_HDP_AzureSetup.html ... View more

@artem: Thanks for your comment. I'm the writer on the Manual Install Guide and I'll take care of this and will publish the link. ... View more

@jbarnett - This has been fixed in our documentation, per internal BUG-53613. See http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.4.2/bk_upgrading_hdp_manually/content/configure-yarn-mr-23.html for a link to the 2.4.2 version. These changes were back ported all the way back to 2.2.8. Thanks for helping us to increase the quality of our documentation. ... View more

A new guide for deploying HDP on Azure was recently released. See http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.4.0/bk_HDP_AzureSetup/content/ch_HDP_AzureSetup.html. ... View more