[ANNOUNCE] Cloudera Director 2.8.0 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 2.8.0.
Cloudera Director provides a simple, reliable, enterprise-grade way to deploy, scale, and manage Apache Hadoop in the cloud of your choice. Cloudera Director is available as a free download for use with Cloudera Express and is fully supported with Cloudera Enterprise.
What's New in Cloudera Director 2.8.0
- Simple cluster setup
- Usability
- Azure plugin improvements
- The command line client's standalone functionality has been deprecated. The standalone CLI commands will be removed in a future release (bootstrap, status, terminate, update, and validate), and the Cloudera Director client will be used only for command line interactions with a Cloudera Director server. When the validate command is removed, a new CLI command will be provided for validating a configuration file.
For more info on downloading and installing Director, see the links below.
- Download Cloudera Director
- Cloudera Director Release Notes
- Getting Started with Cloudera Director
- Installing Cloudera Director Client
- Installing Cloudera Director Server
As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please post your questions and comments on our community forum.

