In the Studio, if there is no support for the Big Data Platform you want to use,
follow the procedure explained below to add this distribution yourself to make it
available to the Studio.
In the current Studio version, you can use this procedure to add the Cloudera and the
Hortonworks distributions only. This procedure uses Cloudera to demonstrate how to add a dynamic distribution to the Studio.
With this dynamic support feature, you are empowered with more agility and
flexibility to use a Cloudera or Hortonworks version that was not released the moment
your Talend Studio was released, by
simply adding this version yourself through several clicks.
The dynamic distributions added this way are generally
minor versions of a Talend-certified major release of
your distribution. Talend relies on the distribution
vendors' compatibility statements to ensure the compatibility of the Studio with these minor
versions and, by this measure, provides official support for the use cases that can be
produced on these minor versions as well as on the Talend-certified versions.
For further information about the Talend-certified distribution versions and Talend general support policy about the
certified and the compatible versions, see Talend Installation Guide.
- On the version list of the distributions, some versions are labelled
Builtin. These versions were added by Talend via the Dynamic distribution
mechanism and delivered with the Studio when the Studio was released. They are certified
by Talend, thus officially supported
and ready to use.
Procedure
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In the Integration perspective, click to open the Project Settings
dialog box.
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Click to open its view.
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From the Distribution drop-down list, select
Cloudera.
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Set up your local Nexus repository to store the dynamic distribution jar files
to be downloaded.
While not mandatory, this step allows other users or other Studio instances to download the same jar files much faster.
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Set up a proxy on your local Nexus repository and link this proxy to
the dedicated Talend proxy:
https://talend-update.talend.com/nexus/content/groups/dynamicdistribution/.
The credentials to be used to connect to this
Talend proxy are:
- Username: studio-dl-client
- Password: studio-dl-client
When you create your local proxy, you need to define the credentials
specific to this local proxy. For an example about how to create a Nexus
proxy, see Proxy settings from the Nexus documentation.
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Click to open its view, select the Override default setup check box to activate the
Repository field.
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In the Repository field, enter the URL of your
local proxy and the credentials defined for this proxy.
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Click Check Connection to verify its connection
status.
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Go back to the Dynamic distribution
settings view and click the Dynamic
distribution setup button to open the dynamic distribution
configuration wizard.
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Select the Create new dynamic configuration radio button
and click Refresh to display, on the
Version drop-down list, the Cloudera versions that are
available in the connected Cloudera repository.
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Select the Cloudera version for which you want to generate the configuration to
be used by the Studio.
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Click Finish.
The Studio starts to retrieve the configuration files for
this distribution from the Cloudera repository. This retrieval may take a
while.
Once done, the [Dynamic distribution setup] wizard is
automatically closed to bring you back to the Dynamic
distribution settings view. The newly generated "dynamic"
distribution for the version you previously selected is displayed on the
Version list.
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You can repeat the operations to add more versions if needs be.
Otherwise, click Apply and Close to close
the Project settings dialog box.
