Setup and Administration#

Hopsworks runs on Kubernetes, on a cloud provider or on your own hardware. This section covers installing the platform and administering it afterwards. For the client libraries, see the Client Installation guide.

Start here

Pick your environment and follow its getting started guide. Each one takes you from an empty account to a running cluster with a first project.

AWS · Azure · GCP · On-prem

Install

AWS, Azure, GCP Managed Kubernetes on each cloud, with the storage and network the cluster needs.
On-prem Your own Kubernetes, optionally with an external Kafka cluster.
Cluster configuration Configuration variables, with the full reference and build performance notes.

Users and access

Users and projects Approve users, assign roles, manage projects and quotas.
Authentication OAuth2 identity providers, LDAP and Kerberos, with project mapping.
IAM role chaining Let projects assume AWS roles.

Operate

Monitoring Service dashboards, exported metrics and service logs.
High availability and disaster recovery Replicated services and backup, restore procedures.
Audit and operations Access audit logs, service operations, search index.
Alerts, Trino, Superset Cluster-wide alert receivers and the analytics services.