COD now allows you to create or update a database using a custom image. Custom images can be used for various purposes, such as compliance or security requirements. An image catalog is used to hold one or more custom images. You can inherit pre-installed packages or software from the custom image while creating or updating an operational database. You can also switch an image catalog of an existing operational database. For more information, see Managing custom images in COD.   This is available starting in COD v1.25 and you do not need to upgrade to a higher version of COD to benefit from this feature.   Try out CDP Operational Database for free with Test Drive (no cloud account or setup is needed). ... View more

COD now allows you to create edge nodes while creating an operational database. You can define the number of edge nodes to be created, and COD automatically creates and configures the nodes in your COD cluster. You can also add additional nodes into your COD cluster or delete an existing one using the edge node instance ID. For more information, see Managing edge nodes.   This is available starting in COD v1.26 and you do not need to upgrade to a higher version of COD to benefit from this feature.   Try out CDP Operational Database for free with Test Drive (no cloud account or setup is needed). ... View more

COD now allows you to disable Kerberos authentication while creating an operational database using COD CLI. You can use the --disable-kerberos option while running the create-database command to disable the Kerberos authentication. cdp opdb create-database --environment-name ENVIRONMENT_NAME --database-name DATABASE_NAME --disable-kerberos   This is available starting in COD v1.26 and you do not need to upgrade to a higher version of COD to benefit from this feature.   Try out CDP Operational Database for free with Test Drive (no cloud account or setup is needed). ... View more

COD introduces a CldrCopyTable utility, which is Cloudera’s version of the upstream CopyTable utility. This utility is an extension of the COD replication plugin that enables you to copy data cross-realm. This utility enables you to close any replication gaps that might arise depending on how you start or stop replication.   This is available starting in COD v1.13 and you do not need to upgrade to a higher version of COD to benefit from this feature.   Try out CDP Operational Database for free with Test Drive (no cloud account or setup is needed). ... View more

COD now supports the CDP CLI commands update-hbase-configuration and describe-hbase-configuration to update and retrieve the HBase configuration values. For more information, see update-hbase-configuration and describe-hbase-configuration.   This is available starting in COD v1.24 and you do not need to upgrade to a higher version of COD to benefit from this feature.   Try out CDP Operational Database for free with Test Drive (no cloud account or setup is needed). ... View more

For Multi-AZ deployments, COD assigns the nodes to multiple regions when multiple strong meta servers exist in the deployment.   This is available starting in COD v1.24 and you do not need to upgrade to a higher version of COD to benefit from this feature.   Try out CDP Operational Database for free with Test Drive (no cloud account or setup is needed). ... View more

Cloudera Manager and monitoring systems require more resources than a regular deployment for big clusters with a large number of nodes. To support this, now COD supports a fast gp2 storage when you choose a gateway node of HEAVY type.   This is available starting in COD v1.24 and you do not need to upgrade to a higher version of COD to benefit from this feature.   Try out CDP Operational Database for free with Test Drive (no cloud account or setup is needed). ... View more

COD now displays notifications about all the major events on the COD UI. For example, auto-scaling events, auto-healing events, and alerting notifications. The UI notifications is a major step in providing enough information on COD UI so that you do not need to navigate to multiple internal systems used by COD to get the required information as well as be aware of the events happening in the system on an immediate basis.   This is available starting in COD v1.23 and you do not need to upgrade to a higher version of COD to benefit from this feature.   Try out CDP Operational Database for free with Test Drive (no cloud account or setup is needed). ... View more

COD allows you to customize the attached storage worker node for an HDFS cluster while creating a database. You can define the EBS volumes for HDFS clusters. You can also view the customized attached storage worker nodes using the ‘describe-database’ and ‘list-database’ commands.   This is available starting in COD v1.23 and you do not need to upgrade to a higher version of COD to benefit from this feature.   Try out CDP Operational Database for free with Test Drive (no cloud account or setup is needed). ... View more

Certain countries may have regulatory requirements that limit or forbid specific types of data from being sent or stored outside of the country or region where an organization operates. For this reason Cloudera has introduced new regions in which the Control Plane can run. By choosing a region other than us-west-1, you can ensure that sensitive metadata (such as information about CDP users) does not leave its region or country of origin. For more information, see CDP Control Plane regions.   This is available starting in COD v1.22 and you do not need to upgrade to a higher version of COD to benefit from this feature.   Try out CDP Operational Database for free with Test Drive (no cloud account or setup is needed). ... View more