This is part 2 in a series on how to build a Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6 cluster on AWS. In part 1 we created an edge node where we will later install Ambari Server. The next step is creating the master nodes.

Creating the first master node

Make sure you are logged in Amazon Web Services, in the same AWS district as the edge node. To create 3 master nodes, we have to start with one. Once again we go to the EC2 dashboard in the AWS interface and click “Launch instance”. And again we have a choice of Amazon Machine Images and again we choose Ubuntu Server 16.04.

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