[ANNOUNCE] Cloudera Director 2.8.0 Released

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We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.8.0.

Cloudera Director provides a simple, reliable, enterprise-grade way to deploy, scale, and manage Apache Hadoop in the cloud of your choice. Cloudera Director is available as a free download for use with Cloudera Express and is fully supported with Cloudera Enterprise.

What's New in Cloudera Director 2.8.0

• Simple cluster setup
• Usability
• Azure plugin improvements
• The command line client's standalone functionality has been deprecated. The standalone CLI commands will be removed in a future release (bootstrap, status, terminate, update, and validate), and the Cloudera Director client will be used only for command line interactions with a Cloudera Director server. When the validate command is removed, a new CLI command will be provided for validating a configuration file.

For more info on downloading and installing Director, see the links below.

• Download Cloudera Director
• Cloudera Director Release Notes
• Getting Started with Cloudera Director
• Installing Cloudera Director Client
• Installing Cloudera Director Server

As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please post your questions and comments on our community forum.