@AI99 Your concerns are well founded. I don't think I can offer any generally applicable advice on whether or not you will, at some unspecified point in the future, be able to scale up any clusters that you currently have deployed with the same public repo links or if you will encounter problems. That depends on how you have said cluster configured and how you set your cluster up to respond to the addition of nodes when you installed it or last updated the configuration. Because of the aforementioned change in location, you should not assume that a configuration of your cluster which depends upon being able to retrieve any files from Cloudera's repositories without a valid Cloudera subscription will continue to meet your needs. With regard to your inquiry about the current packages that Cloudera is offering and the pricing for them, your single best approach would be to contact the Cloudera Sales Team to find out more about subscription options.     ... View more

Hello @AI99 ,   I would refer you to the announcement I linked to earlier in this very thread, Transition to private repositories for CDH, HDP and HDF because it has a section labeled Installing/upgrading Ambari & HDP via Cloudera's private repository that in turn has links to extensive documentation on how to download and install Ambari and HDP. It also features links to all the details required to update your environment and how to obtain the credentials necessary to access Cloudera's private repositories, which now contain all new and existing releases. The credentials to access this private repository are not generally the same ones to access Cloudera's website or the Cloudera community. Instead, people with a valid Cloudera subscription can generate repository credentials from a license key, and there is a link in the same announcement I mentioned above which explains how to initiate the process for obtaining that license key.     ... View more