Thanks for this info (and link) and duly noted on troubleshooting in the future! ... View more

@Mike Wilson On that note I managed to find another issue with the validator.   If you create a VirtualInstanceGroup similar to the python example here: https://github.com/cloudera/director-sdk/blob/master/python-client-samples/cluster.py#L159   And then change the name in the VirtualInstanceGroup to masters.1 (add an invalid character to it like a .) it will create the cluster successfully but then the user in the UI will not be able to repair nodes / grow / shrink nor clone the cluster.   It will also just gray out the continue button and provide no feedback to the user in the logs nor the UI.   Cheers! ... View more

Wow! I'm impressed. Thank you for the detailed instructions, and good work! I would like to reiterate that anyone who follows this advice does it at their own risk, just in case you missed jcpuskar's warning . 🙂 ... View more