COD now allows you to vertically scale up the COD clusters from a Light Duty to a Medium Duty instance type. You can upgrade the instance type of a COD cluster that belongs to a Master or Gateway node.   To know more about the vertical scaling, see Vertical scaling COD clusters.   This is available starting in COD v1.30 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

On the COD UI, you can find the JWT configuration details under <Database> > Connect > HBase Client Tarball > JWT Configuration. You can refer to these configurations to set up a connection to HBase with a JWT token and build your own truststore JKS file. For more information, see Configuring JWT authentication for HBase client.   This is available starting in COD v1.28 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 UI now allows you to select the storage type when creating an operational database. You can either select Cloud Storage or HDFS. Earlier, if you had to use the HDFS as the storage type, you were required to use the --use-hdfs option on COD CLI while creating the operational database. Now COD UI is enhanced to let you select the storage type when you create an operational database. For more information, see Creating a database using COD.   This is available starting in COD v1.28 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 provides a CLI option, --enable-region-canary to enable the HBase region canaries while creating an operational database. Use the following command to enable the HBase region canaries. cdp opdb create-database --environment-name ENVIRONMENT_NAME --database-name DATABASE_NAME --enable-region-canary If the command is successful, the following HBase canaries are added. You can view them on the Cloudera Manager UI under the HBase service. hbase_region_health_canary_enabled hbase_region_health_canary_slow_run_alert_enabled hbase_canary_alert_unhealthy_region_percent_threshold   For more information, see Enabling HBase region canary.   This is available starting in COD v1.27 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

When you create an operational database, you can now define the structure of your database based on a predefined Data Lake template. The template defines the number of gateway, master, and worker nodes to be added while creating a database. You can select a template and accordingly the nodes are added into the COD cluster after the database is successfully created. To know more about this, see Creating a database using COD.   This is available starting in COD v1.27 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 configure JWT (JSON Web Token)-based authentication for your HBase clients, which uses an unique identifier and is a standard way of securely transmitting signed information between two parties. To know more about the JWT authentication, see Configuring JWT authentication for HBase client.   This is available starting in COD v1.27 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 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