Instant Pentaho Data Integration Kitchen
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Pentaho PDI is a modern, powerful, and easy-to-use ETL system that lets you develop ETL processes with simplicity. Explore and gain the experience and skills that you need to run processes from the command line or schedule them by using an extensive description and a good set of samples.
Instant Pentaho Data Integration Kitchen How-to will help you to understand the correct way to deal with PDI command line tools. We start with a recipe about how to configure your memory requirements to run your processes effectively and then move forward with a set of recipes that show you the different ways to start PDI processes.
We start with a recap about how transformations and jobs are designed using spoon and then move forward to configure memory requirements to properly run your processes from the command line.
We dive into the various flags that control the logging system by specifying the logging output and the log verbosity. We focus and deliver all the knowledge you require to run the ETL processes using command line tools with ease and in a proficient manner.
ApproachFilled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. A practical guide with easy-to-follow recipes helping developers to quickly and effectively collect data from disparate sources such as databases, files, and applications, and turn the data into a unified format that is accessible and relevant to end users.
Who this book is forAny IT professional working on PDI and is a valid support for either learning how to use the command line tools efficiently or for going deeper on some aspects of the command line tools to help you work better.
Sergio Ramazzina
Sergio Ramazzina is a software architect/trainer with more than 20 years of experience on a broad number of projects for banks and major Italian companies, designing complex enterprise solutions in Java/JavaEE and Ruby. He started using Pentaho products from the very beginning in late 2003, gaining deep experience by deploying Pentaho as an open source BI solution, standalone, or deeply integrated in other applications that he had designed as the analytics engine of choice. Starting from 2009, based on his experience in the Java/JavaEE world and because of the appreciation for the open source world and its main ideas, he began participating actively as a contributor to some of the Pentaho projects: JPivot, Saiku, CDF, and CDA, and gained the Pentaho Active Contributor level. In late 2010 he founded Serasoft, a young Italian consulting company specialized in the design and delivery of open source Business Intelligence solutions and started participating as a BI architect and Pentaho expert on a wide number of projects where the open source BI and Pentaho are the main actors. He is also covering the role of CTO for Athilab (Athirat Innovation Lab), sharing his experience in the design and delivery of high value innovative enterprise solutions. He is always looking for innovative solutions that can help users work more efficiently. He is also passionate about skiing, tennis, and photography
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Instant Pentaho Data Integration Kitchen - Sergio Ramazzina
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Preface
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1. Instant Pentaho Data Integration Kitchen
Designing a simple PDI transformation (Simple)
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
How to quickly find the steps to use
Designing a simple PDI job (Simple)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Why a proper naming for tasks and steps is so important
Using internal variables to write location-independent processes
The important role of icon and color indicators
Configuring command-line tools to run properly (Simple)
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Making things easier by writing custom scripts
Executing PDI jobs from a filesystem (Simple)
Getting ready
How to do it…
Executing PDI jobs packaged in archive files (Intermediate)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Changes in job and transformation design
Executing PDI jobs from the repository (Simple)
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Changes in job and transformation design
How to define a filesystem repository
Defining a database repository
Dealing with the execution log (Simple)
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Understanding the log to identify where our process fails
Separating execution logfiles by date and time
Discovering your PDI repository from the command line (Simple)
Getting ready
How to do it...
Exporting jobs and transformations to the .zip files (Simple)
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Managing PDI processes return code (Simple)
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
A summary of Kitchen/Pan exit codes
Scheduling PDI jobs and transformations (Intermediate)
Getting ready
How to do it...
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Understanding crontab malfunctions
Instant Pentaho Data Integration Kitchen
Instant Pentaho Data Integration Kitchen
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About the Author
Sergio Ramazzina is a software architect/trainer with over 20 years of experience working on a large number of projects for banks and major Italian companies as well as designing complex enterprise solutions in Java/JavaEE and Ruby. He started using Pentaho products from the very beginning (late 2003), gaining vast experience by deploying Pentaho as an open source, standalone BI solution. He also deeply integrated Pentaho as the analytics engine of choice in other applications he designed. Starting from 2009, based on his experience in the Java/JavaEE world and because of his appreciation for the open source world and its principles, he began participating actively as a contributor to some Pentaho projects, such as JPivot, Saiku, CDF, and CDA, and he has achieved the title of Pentaho Active Contributor.
In late 2010, he founded Serasoft, a young Italian consulting company specialized in the design and delivery of open source business intelligence solutions, and he started participating as a BI architect and Pentaho expert on a wide number of projects where open source BI and Pentaho were the main heroes. He is also the CTO of Athilab (Athirat Innovation Lab), sharing his experience in the design and delivery of high-value innovative enterprise solutions. He is always looking for innovative solutions that can help users make their work more efficient. He is also passionate about skiing, tennis, and photography.
About the Reviewer
Joel Latino was born in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, in 1989. He has been working in the IT industry since 2010, mostly as a software developer and BI developer.
He started his career at Xpand-IT—a Portuguese company specialized in strategic planning, consulting, implementation, and the maintenance of enterprise software that is fully adapted to the customer's needs—and earned his graduate degree in Informatics Engineering