This cookbook [currently as of now] can be used to setup a Cloudera Manager Server (Management Server) running on MySQL database. But the intended use for this cookbook [rather a wishlist] is to do more. Simply put Auto Deployment of a Cloudera Hadoop Cluster using Chef, Python and Cloudera API. This will help create cluster for a development/test/preproduction/production environment on a click of a button. Attributes Recipe Usage Get the Cookbook. Can be downloaded from the link. Cloudera Manager Setup How would the Setup Look like. Nodes and the runlist which will be assigned. Cloudera Manager - Runlist cm_setup default runlist which will include all the installations. All Other nodes - Runlist, will be assigning the Role base_node_install which we will create below. What does cm_setup default cookbook have. Common installations, like disable selinux and iptables . # Setting up commons include_recipe 'cm_setup::commons' Setting up sysctl.c