Course Outline
Fundamentals of NiFi and Data Flow
- Concepts and challenges of data in motion versus data at rest.
- NiFi architecture: cores, flow controller, provenance, and bulletin.
- Key components: processors, connections, controllers, and provenance.
Big Data Context and Integration
- The role of NiFi within Big Data ecosystems (Hadoop, Kafka, cloud storage).
- Overview of HDFS, MapReduce, and modern alternatives.
- Use cases: stream ingestion, log shipping, and event pipelines.
Installation, Configuration & Cluster Setup
- Installing NiFi in both single-node and cluster modes.
- Cluster configuration: node roles, Zookeeper, and load balancing.
- Orchestrating NiFi deployments using Ansible, Docker, or Helm.
Designing and Managing Dataflows
- Routing, filtering, splitting, and merging flows.
- Processor configuration (InvokeHTTP, QueryRecord, PutDatabaseRecord, etc.).
- Handling schema, enrichment, and transformation operations.
- Error handling, retry relationships, and backpressure.
Integration Scenarios
- Connecting to databases, messaging systems, and REST APIs.
- Streaming to analytics systems such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, or cloud storage.
- Integrating with Splunk, Prometheus, or logging pipelines.
Monitoring, Recovery & Provenance
- Using the NiFi UI, metrics, and provenance visualizer.
- Designing autonomous recovery mechanisms and graceful failure handling.
- Backup, flow versioning, and change management.
Performance Tuning & Optimization
- Tuning JVM, heap, thread pools, and clustering parameters.
- Optimizing flow design to minimize bottlenecks.
- Resource isolation, flow prioritization, and throughput control.
Best Practices & Governance
- Flow documentation, naming standards, and modular design.
- Security: TLS, authentication, access control, and data encryption.
- Change control, versioning, role-based access, and audit trails.
Troubleshooting & Incident Response
- Common issues: deadlocks, memory leaks, and processor errors.
- Log analysis, error diagnostics, and root cause investigation.
- Recovery strategies and flow rollback.
Hands-on Lab: Realistic Data Pipeline Implementation
- Building an end-to-end flow: ingestion, transformation, and delivery.
- Implementing error handling, backpressure, and scaling.
- Performance testing and tuning the pipeline.
Summary and Next Steps
Requirements
- Experience with the Linux command line.
- Basic understanding of networking and data systems.
- Familiarity with data streaming or ETL concepts.
Audience
- System administrators.
- Data engineers.
- Developers.
- DevOps professionals.
Testimonials (7)
Hands on exercises. Class should have been 5 days, but the 3 days helped to clear up a lot of questions that I had from working with NiFi already
James - BHG Financial
Course - Apache NiFi for Administrators
I thought the trainer's pace was good. He left no student behind with his approach. He was very supportive with us NEWBIES that may not have had a System Administrator or Infrastructure role during our career or resurrected those skills from a prior period of our career.
Pamdrea Ivory - BHG Financial
Course - Apache NiFi for Administrators
I like the hands on section. It helped me to better retain information by completing the provided exercises. Also, the trainer's ability to engage with the entire class made me feel comfortable to ask questions on things I was not sure about.
Leila - BHG Financial
Course - Apache NiFi for Administrators
Use-cases, examples for building NiFi dataflows. We worked on troubleshooting common problems and gotchas.
Nelson - BHG Financial
Course - Apache NiFi for Administrators
I loved the structure. We dove into the basics of Nifi, concepts, use cases, etc. on day 1. On day 2, we got to put Day 1 knowledge into practice by building out flows to meet scenario requirements. Day 3 we got to see Nifi Registry and version control, mulit-tenancy, and go over Q&A.
Adam - BHG Financial
Course - Apache NiFi for Administrators
I like how he was able to elaborate about Nifi and how powerful it is. You can basically use it for any infrastructure and use many different computer languages. Also i was glad we were able to fix the Nifi cert renewal issue we were having with the Truststore.
Joachim Martin - BHG Financial
Course - Apache NiFi for Administrators
general knowledge and the possibilities that the training offered in terms on the tool.
