@PJ18 Hmm…I think you might have been looking at an older document. The relevant paragraph, which I provided a link to above, is the initial one: …beginning in February 2021, no versions of Cloudera Manager, CDH, Apache Ambari, HDP and HDF releases will be available via Cloudera's public repositories. Instead, all of the then-currently supported releases of Cloudera Manager, CDH, Ambari, HDP and HDF will be accessible only to active customers with valid subscription entitlements to these Cloudera products. This follows similar changes made for versions released since November 2019, which were never posted in Cloudera’s public repositories. Emphasis added.   As far as expediting your sales inquiry, I will reach out to our sales contact and inform them of your questions.        ... View more

Michael,   I think you bring up a series of valid questions, and the previously posted answer, which was: The best way to get more details is to reach out to your representative on the Cloudera Sales Team. …remains accurate and the best way to get answers tailored to your organization's specific needs.   I think I can shed some light on the final issue you raised, however: I can't find the source code to CDH, CDP or Cloudera Manager in Cloudera's Github org…Can you point us to the source code for these specific products? As I understand the situation right now, the plan never was to simply place the source code for CDH, CDP or Cloudera Manager on Cloudera's GitHub repo and let end-user's have at it and I don't believe that the blog post you cited promises that.    Put another way, "enacting license changes" and "establish the new open source projects for formerly closed source components" is not the same thing as "put the source code on GitHub so it's available to people who do not have a Cloudera subscription".       ... View more

@Arna you don't say what cost you want to be lower than, so I'll assume that you're trying to avoid cloud service provider costs.   If you're looking for a solution that would allow you to run the CDP Data Center 60-day trial on your own, local machine, consider @carrossoni 's Vagrant and Virtualbox-based approach, which you can read about here: How to create a Centos7 CDP-DC Trial VM for sandbox/learning purposes   ...hope this helps.     ... View more

Interestingly, it appears from their recent announcement that centos8 in particular and centos in general is going to stop being a stable release of Linux that's compatible with RHEL and maintained by the community:  https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/     ... View more

@donno you wrote: I am still unable to simply initiate Hortonworks Sandbox session in the browser or via PuTTY SSH We will be able to help you if can provide us more details such as what is happening, what is failing, what error message you are seeing, or how you know that the Sandbox session is not initiating. Meanwhile, if you are able to log into Ambari via the browser but the services can't be started, (as shown in Ambari), you might consult this thread: unable to start service from hdp sandbox 2.6.5       ... View more