Chapter 5. YARN Administration

In this section, we will focus on YARN's administrative part and on the administrator roles and responsibilities of YARN. We will also gain a more detailed insight into the administration configuration settings and parameters, application container monitoring, and optimized resource allocations, as well as scheduling and multitenancy application support in YARN. We'll also cover the basic administration tools and configuration options of YARN.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • YARN container allocation and configurations
  • Scheduling policies
  • YARN multitenancy application support
  • YARN administration and tools

Container allocation

At a very fundamental level, the container is the group of physical resources ...

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