Step 1 of every Hadoop vendor’s documentation reads something like this: “First install a cluster.” Without a consistent group of installed machines, a Hadoop installation is prone to failure. Open source Stacki installs machines to a ping and a prompt enabling the consistency and configuration required for a functioning Hadoop installation. StackIQ released a new open source Hortonworks bridge pallet to enable the installation of Hortonworks through the Ambari appliance at the beginning of 2017. In this presentation, Joe will show you how to set-up Stacki, the HDP Bridge pallet, Ambari, and then install Hadoop on a running cluster.