Question-136: What is the requirement to create the Cloudera Altus Data Engineering cluster in the Microsoft Azure?

Answer: If you are using Azure subscription then your Administrator of the Azure subscription must provide the consent for Altus to access the resources in your subscription. If any of the account holder in the Altus create a cluster then Azure Administrator consent allows Altus to create the cluster under that Azure subscription. 

Question-137: Should I keep running the Altus cluster?

Answer: No, Altus manages the cluster and jobs in your cloud provider account (AWS, Azure). If you don’t need the cluster then you should configure Altus such a way that Cluster should be terminated when the cluster is not in use. So, that cost can be saved.

Question-138: Where does Altus input/output the data when it needs while running the job?

Answer: As soon as you submit the job which needs to be executed on the cluster, then Altus create a Job Queue then this job would be executed on the cluster. Cluster can be on AWS or Azure (Depend where you have created). During the Job execution if data is needed then in case of AWS, S3 object storage would be used. In case of Azure it would be using Azure Data Lake Store. 

Even in that storage Altus also stores the cluster and Job information in your Cloud object storage. 

Question-139: Can you please explain Cloudera Altus Engineering Service once again?

Answer: Cloudera Altus is a service for the Public Cloud Platform as of now AWS and Azure. You can create CDH cluster and once done you can configure it to auto terminate the cluster. Altus helps to provision the CDH cluster quickly and make it very easy for you to build and run your data workloads in the Cloud. 

You have to choose whether you want Azure or AWS, so that Altus can create CDH cluster either one of them. 

Question-140: How does Altus uses networking in respective public Cloud for Cluster creation?

Answer: Altus uses the following networking solution

• AWS: Altus cluster would be created inside Virtual Private Network in your account.
• Azure: Under you Azure subscription, in vNet (Virtual Network) it would be created.