We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.7.0.   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 2.7.0 LDAP and Active Directory support for Cloudera Director users. Improved Java 8 support for clusters. Instance level control of normalization. AWS plugin improvements. A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 2.7.0 for details.   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. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.6.1.   Cloudera Director 2.6.1 provides bug fixes and and product improvements, as outlined in the Cloudera Director 2.6.1 release notes.   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. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.6.0.   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 2.6.0   Expanded support for TLS: Automatic TLS for Cloudera Manager and CDH: Cloudera Director now provides the ability to automatically configure Cloudera Manager 5.13 or later and CDH 5.13 or later with TLS using a bespoke certificate authority based on the Cloudera Manager instance. See Automatic TLS (Auto-TLS). Manual TLS Support for Cloudera Manager: Cloudera Director is now able to communicate with Cloudera Manager 5.13 or later after it has been configured manually to communicate over TLS. See Manual TLS. TLS Support for Cloudera Director clients: The Java and Python client libraries and the Cloudera Director client are now able to communicate with the Cloudera Director server after the server has been configured to communicate over TLS. See TLS for Cloudera Director Itself. SSH Host Key Support: Cloudera Director can now retrieve SSH host keys from instances it allocates to provide extra security. See SSH Host Key Retrieval and Verification. You can change the AMI stored in a cluster template (for example, if the original AMI is no longer available), and Cloudera Director will continue to work with the new AMI. Starting with Cloudera Manager 5.13, Cloudera Director is able to delete Kerberos principals automatically created for a cluster when the cluster is terminated. AWS EBS volumes with provisioned IOPS are now supported. An instance template now supports specification of a rack ID for instances created from it. The rack ID can be used by Cloudera Manager and CDH to guide data distribution and increase durability. New features and changes with Microsoft Azure: Simplified Azure Environment and instance template configurations. Configurations from previous releases of Cloudera Director will continue to be supported. Support for Azure Managed Disks. The instance prefix requirements have been relaxed to support prefixes of one and two characters. Virtual machines can now be provisioned without an Availability Set. Support for new disk sizes: P/S40 (2048 GB) P/S50 (4095 GB) Some web UI menu items have been moved from the Advanced section to the Basic section. Referencing Azure Marketplace Images inline in the Image field is now supported using this format: /publisher/<publisher>/offer/<offer>/sku/<sku>/version/<version>. Deploying clusters with custom images is now supported when using Azure Managed Disks. See Deploying Clusters with Custom Images. A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 2.6.0 for details. A beta of version 2 of the Cloudera Director plugin SPI is available, and the plugins that ship with Cloudera Director are updated to use it. 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 ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.5.1.   Cloudera Director 2.5.1 provides bug fixes and and product improvements, as outlined in the Cloudera Director 2.5.1 release notes.   AWS eventual consistency during tagging of instances We have recently observed that tagging of instances can take longer than expected in some AWS regions. This can result in timeouts during instance allocation when using Cloudera Director 2.4 and lower. Cloudera recommends upgrading to Cloudera Director 2.5 or higher to avoid this issue, unless you are using AWS GovCloud or China regions. Cloudera Director 2.5 and higher uses the AWS tag-on-create feature when creating instances, resulting in faster instance tagging. The AWS tag-on-create feature is currently not available in AWS GovCloud and China regions.   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. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.5.0.   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 2.5.0   Automatic repair: Cloudera Director can now automatically repair instances that get terminated unexpectedly for clusters that have auto-repair enabled. Significant improvement in resilience to unexpected instance terminations during bootstrap and grow operations. This improves support for AWS spot instances, as well as resilience of clusters using on-demand instances. Cloudera Director can now configure and create external accounts in Cloudera Manager that include cloud provider login credentials in order to manage the use of additional cloud provider functionality, including object stores, such as Amazon S3 in AWS. Cloudera Director now supports S3Guard, which guarantees a consistent view of data stored in Amazon S3. Cloudera Director can now recognize changes made directly from the cloud provider console to provisioned instances such as instance type and AMI. Cluster details page in the web UI now shows cluster history, displaying the most recent updates, including instances added, removed, or replaced in the cluster. Logging improvements, including additional information about service and role configuration errors returned by the Cloudera Manager API. A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 2.5.0 for details.   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. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.4.1.   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.   Cloudera Director 2.4.1 provides bug fixes and and product improvements, as outlined in the Cloudera Director 2.4.1 release notes.   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. ... View more

Dear Cloudera User,   We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) release of Cloudera Altus.  Cloudera Altus is a platform-as-a-service offering that makes it dramatically easier and more cost-effective to run Cloudera in the cloud. The initial service - available today - targets foundational data engineering workloads and will allow you to quickly and easily spin up Cloudera clusters and run your data pipelines.   Why Cloudera Altus: The platform-as-a-service deployment model eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with cloud and cluster operations for the end user. Instead, users can quickly launch data engineering jobs on-demand and focus on their workloads rather than cluster operations. Altus leverages the trusted, enterprise-grade Cloudera distribution, allowing easy migration of on-prem workloads to and from the cloud with minimal risk. Altus provides interoperable workflows between the data engineering offering and Cloudera’s machine learning, BI and real-time applications, so that you can easily run full data pipelines with Altus and the Cloudera platform in the cloud Altus is available today on AWS. Altus documentation can be found at this link. More information on Altus can be found on our engineering and VISION blogs.   As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please post your comments and suggestions in our community forums. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.4.0.   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. Cloudera Director 2.4.0 includes the following new features:   Improved support for long-running clusters: Cloudera Director 2.4 will support upgrades, change of services, and configurations from Cloudera Manager 5.11. Spark 2 support Kudu support For Azure clusters, support for Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) via Cloudera Manager and CDH 5.11 deployments. Support for the following Microsoft Azure Clouds and Regions: Azure Germany: Germany Central and Germany Northeast Azure Government: US DoD East and US DoD Central   Use the following links to download the product and view the documentation:   Download: Download Cloudera Director Documentation: Cloudera Director Release Notes Getting Started 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. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.3.0.   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. Cloudera Director 2.3.0 includes the following new features:   Support for AWS Spot Blocks. Instances in AWS Spot blocks are guaranteed to remain available during cluster bootstrap, so that the process is resilient to fluctuations in AWS Spot Instance availability. More control of cluster configuration with the introduction of instance-level post-creation scripts, in addition to existing cluster-level post-creation scripts. Updated look and feel of the user interface. AWS New regions: ap-south-1, ca-central-1, eu-west-1 Many new instance types GCP New regions: asia-northeast1, us-west1, us-east1 Azure New instance types: DS15_v2, GS4, GS5 New OS image: CentOS 6.8 Support for Cloudera 5.10 out of the box. Support for RHEL 6.8 and RHEL 7.3 for Cloudera Director and CDH cluster instances. A number of issues have been fixed. See <Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 2.3.0> for details.   Use the following links to download the product and view the documentation: Download Cloudera Director from http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/downloads.html View the documentation: Cloudera Director Release Notes Getting Started 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. ... View more

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.2.0.   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. Cloudera Director 2.2.0 includes the following new features:   AWS EBS volume support Azure Standard Storage support Support for Cloudera 5.9 out of the box Collection of diagnostic logs Improved validation and usability of configuration files   Use the following links to download the product and view the documentation: Download Cloudera Director from http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/downloads.html View the documentation: Cloudera Director Release Notes Getting Started 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. ... View more