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Apache NiFi

  • From, Data Engineering with Python by Paul Crickard. Packt Publishing, 2020.

NiFi was built by the NSA and is a GUI interface workflow manager for building data pipelines.

Install NiFi

  • Download : https://nifi.apache.org/download.html

  • CLI download with curl: 

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    curl https://dlcdn.apache.org/nifi/1.15.0/nifi-1.15.0-bin.tar.gz

  • Extract NiFi files: 
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    tar xvzf nifi.tar.gz
  • Run NiFi in this folder: 
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    cd nifi
bin/nifi.sh start
  • Check for JAVA_HOME path: 
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    sudo bin/nifi.sh status
  • Install Java if no JAVA_HOME set: 
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    sudo apt install openjdk-11-jre-headless