# Configure Big Data Tools environment

Before you start working with Big Data Tools, you need to install the required plugins and configure connections to servers.

Procedure: Install the required plugins

1. Whatever you do in IntelliJ IDEA, you do it in a [project](creating-and-managing-projects.html). So, open an existing project (`File | Open`) or create a new project (`File | New | Project`).

2. Press `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Windows), `⌘ Comma` (macOS), `⌘ Comma` (IntelliJ IDEA Classic (macOS)), `⌘ Comma` (macOS System Shortcuts), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (XWin), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (GNOME), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (KDE), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Emacs), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Sublime Text), `⌘ Comma` (Sublime Text (macOS)), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (NetBeans), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Visual Studio), `⌘ Comma` (Visual Studio (macOS)), `Ctrl+Alt+S` (Eclipse), `⌘ Comma` (Eclipse (macOS)) to open settings and then select `Plugins | Marketplace`.

3. [Install](managing-plugins.html) the following plugins:

* Scala

* Python (if you want to use Python in your Zeppelin notebooks)

4. Install the [Big Data Tools](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12494-big-data-tools) plugin.

5. Restart the IDE. After the restart, the Big Data Tools tool window appears in the rightmost group of the [tool windows](guided-tour-around-the-user-interface.html). Click it to open the Big Data Tools window.

![Big Data Tools tool window](https://resources.jetbrains.com.cn/help/img/idea/2026.2/bdt_open_first_time.png)

You can now select a tool to work with:

* [Amazon EMR](big-data-tools-aws-emr.html)

* [Local file system](big-data-tools-local-file-system.html)

* [SFTP](big-data-tools-sftp.html)

* [HDFS](big-data-tools-hdfs.html)

* [AWS S3](big-data-tools-aws-s3.html)

* [MinIO](big-data-tools-minio.html)

* [Linode](big-data-tools-linode.html)

* [DigitalOcean Spaces](big-data-tools-digitalocean-spaces.html)

* [Alibaba OSS](big-data-tools-alibaba-oss.html)

* [Yandex Object Storage](big-data-tools-yandex-object-storage.html)

* [Google Cloud Storage](big-data-tools-google-cloud-storage.html)

* [Azure](big-data-tools-azure.html)

* [Tencent COS](big-data-tools-tencent-cos.html)

* [Hadoop YARN](big-data-tools-hadoop.html)

* [Spark monitoring](big-data-tools-spark-monitoring.html)

* [Hive Metastore](big-data-tools-hive.html)

* [AWS Glue](big-data-tools-aws-glue.html)

* [Flink monitoring](big-data-tools-flink.html)

* [Run applications with Spark Submit](big-data-tools-spark-submit.html)