Cloudera Educational Services

This three-day hands-on training course delivers the key concepts and expertise developers need to optimize the performance of their Apache Spark applications. During the course, participants will learn how to identify common sources of poor performance in Spark applications, techniques for avoiding or solving them, and best practices for Spark application monitoring. Optimizing Apache Spark Applications presents the architecture and concepts behind Apache Spark and underlying data platform, then builds on this foundational understanding by teaching students how to tune Spark application code. The course format emphasizes instructor-led demonstrations illustrate both performance issues and the techniques that address them, followed by hands-on exercises that give students an opportunity to practice what they've learned through an interactive notebook environment. Download full course description   This course is designed for software developers, engineers, and data scientists who have experience developing Spark applications and want to learn how to improve the performance of their code. This is not an introduction to Spark. Spark examples and hands-on exercises are presented in Python and the ability to program in this language is required. Basic familiarity with the Linux command line is assumed. Basic knowledge of SQL is helpful.   DATE: April 27-29, 2026 Virtual Classroom, EMEA 9:00 - 17:00 (GMT+2 TIMEZONE) Read more

This four-day course teaches the architecture, deployment, and configuration of Cloudera Data Services on Embedded Containerized Services (ECS). Cloudera Data Services provide a state-of-the-art, low- code platform that unifies the entire data lifecycle, reducing development costs and accelerating the development and deployment of use cases.   The course starts by covering best practices for managing Docker images and containers. Students will then build a Docker private registry. This Docker private registry will be used to deploy a Data Services cluster on ECS. Students will install, configure, and validate Cloudera Data Engineering, Cloudera Data Warehouse, and Cloudera Machine Learning. Through hands-on exercises, students will gain experience with Kubernetes, install a Private Cloud Embedded Container Service (ECS), and deploy Cloudera Data Services. Additionally, the course covers networking and hardware requirements and explains how Kubernetes pods dynamically scale to support Cloudera Data Services. Who should take this course This immersive course is designed for Cloudera Administrators transitioning to managing Cloudera Data Services on premises. Students should have at least 3 to 5 years of system administration experience. Students must have proficiency in the Linux Command Line Interface and knowledge of Identity Management, including Transport Layer Security and Kerberos. Familiarity with SQL select statements is recommended. Prior experience with Cloudera products is required. Students need reliable internet access to connect to the Amazon Web Services environment used in this course. Recommended prerequisite courses • ADMIN-230: Administering Cloudera on premises • ADMIN-332: Securing Cloudera on premises   DATE: March 30 - April 2, 2026 Virtual Classroom, EMEA 9:00 - 17:00 (GMT+2 TIMEZONE) Read more

This four-day instructor-led course begins by introducing Apache Kafka, explaining its key concepts and architecture, and discussing several common use cases. Building on this foundation, you will learn how to plan a Kafka deployment, and then gain hands-on experience by installing and configuring your own cloud-based, multi-node cluster running Kafka on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). You will then use this cluster during more than 20 hands-on exercises that follow, covering a range of essential skills, starting with how to create Kafka topics, producers, and consumers, then continuing through progressively more challenging aspects of Kafka operations and development, such as those related to scalability, reliability, and performance problems. Throughout the course, you will learn and use Cloudera’s recommended tools for working with Kafka, including Cloudera Manager, Schema Registry, Streams Messaging Manager, and Cruise Control. DATE: March 30 - April 2, 2026 Virtual Classroom, EMEA 9:00 - 17:00 (GMT+2 TIMEZONE) Read more

About This Training Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are extremely powerful new tools that are changing every industry. To fully take advantage of GenAI and LLMs, these new capabilities need to be combined with your existing enterprise data. This two-day course teaches how to use Cloudera AI to train, augment, fine tune, and host LLMs to create powerful enterprise AI solutions. What Skills You Will Gain Through lecture and Hands-On exercises, you will learn how to: Select the right LLM model for a use case Configure a Prompt for an LLM Use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Fine Tune an LLM Model with Enterprise Data Use the AI Model Registry and host an LLM Create an AI Agent with Crew AI Who Should Take This Course This course is designed for data scientists and machine learning engineers who need to understand how to utilize Cloudera AI to leverage the full power of their enterprise data, generative AI, and Large Language Models and deliver powerful business solutions.   DATE: March 24-25, 2026 Virtual Classroom, EMEA 9:00 - 17:00 (GMT+2 TIMEZONE) Read more

One of the most critical functions of a data-driven enterprise is the ability to manage ingest and data flow across complex ecosystems.  Does your team have the tools and skill sets to succeed at this? Apache NiFi and this four-day course provides the fundamental concepts and experience necessary to automate the ingress, flow, transformation, and egress of data using NiFi. The course also covers tuning, troubleshooting, and monitoring the dataflow process as well as how to integrate a dataflow within the Cloudera CDP Hybrid ecosystem and external systems. Download full course description  What you'll learn During this course, you learn how to:  Define, configure, organize, and manage dataflows  Transform and trace data as it flows to its destination  Track changes to dataflows with NiFi Registry  Use the NiFi Expression Language to control dataflows  Optimize dataflows for better performance and maintainability Connect dataflows with other systems, such as Apache Kafka, Apache Hive, and HDFS Utilize the Data Flow Service What to expect This course is designed for developers, data engineers, administrators, and others with an interest in learning NiFi’s innovative no-code, graphical approach to data ingest. Although programming experience is not required, basic experience with Linux is presumed, and previous exposure to big data concepts and applications is helpful. DATE: January 26-29, 2026 Virtual Classroom, EMEA 9:00 - 17:00 (GMT+2 TIMEZONE) Read more

Overview The Cloudera platform is intended to meet the most demanding technical audit standards. The significant improvements in Cloudera architecture and components make Cloudera “Secure by Design.” This four-day hands-on course is presented as a project plan for Cloudera administrators to build fully secured Cloudera clusters.   The course begins with implementing Perimeter Security by installing host level security and Kerberos. Next, students protect Data by implementing Transport Layer Security using Auto-TLS and data encryption using Key Management System and Key Trustee Server (KMS/KTS). Following this, in the third stage, students control access for users and to data using Apache Ranger and Apache Atlas. The fourth stage focuses on visibility practices, teaching students how to audit systems, users, and data usage. Finally, the course introduces Cloudera practices for Risk Management in a fully secured Cloudera platform. This course is 60% exercise and 40% lecture.   Who should take this course? This immersion course is designed for Linux Administrators transitioning to Cloudera Administrator roles. Students must have proficiency in Linux (e.g., navigating the file system, using basic commands) and Linux text editors (e.g., vi, nano). Familiarity with Directory Services, Transport Layer Security, Kerberos, and SQL select statements is recommended. Prior experience with Cloudera products is required. Students must have reliable internet access to connect to the classroom environments hosted on Amazon Web Services.   DATE: January 26-29, 2026 Virtual Classroom, EMEA 9:00 - 17:00 (GMT+2 TIMEZONE) Read more