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What's New in Cruise Control

Learn about the new features of Cruise Control in Cloudera Runtime 7.1.9.

Cruise Control 2.5.116 Rebase
Cruise Control in Cloudera Runtime is rebased to the 2.5.116 version. For more information about the fixes and features in Cruise Control 2.5.116, see the Cruise Control Rebase Summary.
New endpoint for Cruise Control
The GET/kafkacruisecontrol/permissions endpoint is added to Cruise Control that lists the level permissions of the current user. In case authentication is not configured for a user, the GET call returns Unable to retrieve privilege information for an unsecure connection message.
Adding MultiLevelRackAwareGoal to Cruise Control
As the currently available RackAwareGoal in Cruise Control does not support multi level rack awareness, a new goal was created to ensure that the replicas are assigned respecting the rules of multiple level racks.

The new goal is named com.cloudera.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.MultiLevelRackAwareDistributionGoal.

For more information, see the Multi-level rack-aware distribution goal documentation.

The replication factor of Cruise Control internal topics is configurable
The following Cloudera Manager properties are introduced in the Cruise Control configuration:
  • Sample Store Topic Replication Factor
  • Metrics Topic Replication Factor
  • Metrics Topic Partition Count
  • Metrics Topic Auto Creation
  • Maintenance Event Topic Replication Factor
The properties configure the replication factors of internal topics. The new default value of the replication factor is 3. If you have less than 3 Kafka brokers in your cluster, reduce the replication factor in the Cruise Control configuration. The configuration properties are automatically applied for new deployments. However, when upgrading an existing cluster, the partitions must be reassigned for the new properties to take effect.
Cruise Control now supports Kerberos auth-to-local (ATL) rules with SPNEGO authentication
Cruise Control now uses the cluster-wide Kerberos auth-to-local (ATL) rules by default. A new configuration property called SPNEGO Principal to Local Rules is introduced. This property is used to manually specify the ATL rules. During an upgrade, the property is set to DEFAULT to ensure backward compatibility. Following an upgrade, if you want to use the cluster-wide rules, clear the existing value from the SPNEGO Principal to Local Rules property.