15 January 2013

Hue is a web interface for Apache Hadoop that makes common Hadoop tasks such as running MapReduce jobs, browsing HDFS, and creating Apache Oozie workflows, easier. In this post, we’re going to focus on the dynamic workflow builder that Hue provides for Oozie that will be released in Hue 2.2.0 (For a high-level description of Oozie integration in Hue, see this blog post). The dynamic workflow editor is feature packed and emphasizes usability.…

15 December 2012

Hue is a web interface for Apache Hadoop that makes common Hadoop tasks such as running MapReduce jobs, browsing HDFS, and creating Apache Oozie workflows, easier. (To learn more about the integration of Oozie and Hue, see this blog post.) In this post, we’re going to focus on how one of the fundamental components in Hue, Useradmin, has matured. New User and Permission Features User and permission management in Hue has changed drastically over the past year.…

02 October 2012

Hue now provides an Apache Oozie application for creating workflows of Apache MapReduce, Apache Pig, Apache Hive, Apache Sqoop, Java, Shell, Ssh and Streaming jobs and scheduling them repetitively. Hue is now available in German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian and simplified Chinese. Documentation Download tarball{.trackLink}

01 October 2012

Hue is a Web-based interface that makes it easier to use Apache Hadoop. Hue 2.1 (included in CDH4.1) provides a new application on top of Apache Oozie (a workflow scheduler system for Apache Hadoop) for creating workflows and scheduling them repetitively. For example, Hue makes it easy to group a set of MapReduce jobs and Hive scripts and run them every day of the week. In this post, we’re going to focus on the Workflow component of the new application.…

04 June 2012

Hue 2.0.1 has just been released{.trackLink}. 2.0.1 represents major improvement on top of the Hue 1.x series. To list a few key new features: Frontend has been re-implemented as full screen pages. Hue supports LDAP (OpenLDAP and Active Directory). Hue can be configured to authenticate against LDAP. Additionally, Hue can import users and groups from LDAP, and refresh group membership from LDAP. Hue supports per-application authorization. Administrators can grant or limit group access to applications.…

04 June 2012

Hue 2.0.1 is a major upgrade with many fixes and key new features. The frontend has been re-implemented, LDAP (OpenLDAP and Active Directory) and per-application authorization are supported, a Shell application was added. Documentation Download tarball{.trackLink}

21 February 2011

Hue 1.2.0 is a minor release, largely focused on bug fixes and compatibility with CDH3. Documentation Download tarball{.trackLink}

11 October 2010

Hue 1.1.0 supports Kerberos integration with using a secured Hadoop cluster. Documentation Download tarball{.trackLink}

20 August 2010

Hue 1.0.1 works with a traditional Hadoop cluster that does not have security features. Documentation Download tarball{.trackLink}