Setting up Hadoop YARN in a distributed cluster environment using Hadoop v2

Hadoop v2 YARN deployment includes deploying the ResourceManager service on the master node and deploying NodeManager services in the slave nodes. YARN ResourceManager is the service that arbitrates all the resources of the cluster, and NodeManager is the service that manages the resources in a single node.

Hadoop MapReduce applications can run on YARN using a YARN ApplicationMaster to coordinate each job and a set of resource containers to run the Map and Reduce tasks.

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Installing Hadoop directly using Hadoop release artifacts, as mentioned in this recipe, is recommended for development testing and for advanced use cases only. For regular production clusters, we recommend ...

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