Creating a Cluster

Create a cluster in Big Data Service.

Before you can create a cluster, you must have the following prerequisites:

To create a cluster, provide information about your network and make choices based on your network. To prepare for those questions, have the name of your network, its compartment, and its regional subnet name ready.

You make a cluster secure and highly available by setting an option when you create it. A secure cluster has the full Hadoop security stack, including HDFS Transparent Encryption, plus Kerberos and Apache Sentry.

You can't make an existing cluster secure and highly available if it wasn't created with those features, and you can't remove those features from an existing cluster.

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