Announcing: Cloudera Director 1.5.0

We are pleased to announce the release of Cloudera Director 1.5.0.|

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. Cloudera Director 1.5.0 includes the following new features:

• Cloudera Director now supports multiple cloud providers through an open-source plugin interface: Cloudera Director Service Provider Interface (Cloudera Director SPI).

• Google Cloud Platform is now supported out-of-the-box through an open-source implementation of the Cloudera Director SPI: Cloudera Director Google Plugin.

• Advanced configuration settings are now available in the Cloudera Director UI. These include CDH cluster and Cloudera Manager configurations, and management of database servers set up by Cloudera Director.

• Users can now specify custom scripts to run after cluster creation. Example scripts for enabling HDFS high availability and Kerberos are available at https://github.com/cloudera/director-scripts.

• The Cloudera Director database can now be encrypted. Encryption is enabled by default for new installations.

Links to the product and documentation are listed below:

• Download Cloudera Director from: http://www.cloudera.com/content/support/en/downloads.html

• View the documentation:

• Cloudera Director Release Notes

• Getting Started

• Installing Cloudera Director Client

• Installing Cloudera Director Server

• Use the sample configuration file to create clusters in Google Cloud Platform. Director’s User Interface also allows creation of clusters in Google Cloud Platform.

• Refer to the reference architecture document for best practices for running Cloudera on Google Cloud Platform and leveraging different Google Cloud Platform services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Interconnect.

• To learn more about the Director SPI and plugin implementations:
  

• Cloudera Director Service Provider Interface (Cloudera Director SPI)

• Cloud Provider Technology Compatibility Kit (Cloudera Director SPI TCK)

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) plugin

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) plugin

• Example: Bring Your Own Nodes (BYON) plugin

As always, we are happy to hear your feedback. Please post your questions and comments on our community forum.