If you don't have an account of Baidu Open Cloud, please first register a Baidu account Here, then use your account to log in Baidu Open Cloud and enter into Palo main page:

After entering, click Buy Now:

If it is the first time you create a Palo cluster, the following interface will pop up when you enter the Palo cluster list page:

Please read the tips on the page, and click Open .

Then you can enter into the cluster list page.

Click Create Cluster to enter the cluster purchase page:

Fill in the cluster name and set the cluster password. The node network and available zone can be customized according to your other services on Baidu Cloud and use the default without configuration if there is no requirement. For more details about VPC, click Here.

After filling in the basic information, configure the nodes. The nodes of Palo are divided into Compute Node and Leader Node, in which Leader Node is the main node, mainly used for metadata management, query analysis and query plan generation, as well as cluster task scheduling job management, and can be set to 1 or 3. In production environment, it is recommended to set 3 leader nodes. Compute Node is mainly used for data storage and query plan execution, which is generally configured according to data volume and query requirements, and can be expanded later. At present, the upper limit of Compute Node is 100, which can support PB-level data volume query.

After completing the configuration, click Create Cluster to enter into the unpaid page：

Click Go to Pay to enter into the payment page. After the payment is completed, the opening success page will be displayed:

The creation of Palo cluster can be completed in about 1-5 minutes. You can click Management Console to enter into the console and view the cluster being created or already created.