What you need for this book

To practice the examples provided in this book, you will need a working Hadoop cluster. You will also need a multinode Linux cluster (a minimum of 2 nodes of CentOS 6.2 or similar). Cloudera CDH4.1 or above is recommended. Any latest version of Apache Hadoop distribution can also be used instead of CDH4.1.You will have to download and install Kerberos 5 Release 1.11.3 from the MIT site (http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.11/).

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