New Features and Changes in Cloudera Director
New Features and Changes in Cloudera Director 1
The following sections describe what’s new and changed in each Cloudera Director 1 release.
What's New in Cloudera Director 1.5.2
- Cloudera Director now supports RHEL 6.7.
- A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.5.2 for details.
What's New in Cloudera Director 1.5.1
- A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.5.1 for details.
What's New in Cloudera Director 1.5.0
- Cloudera Director now supports multiple cloud providers through an open-source plugin interface, the Cloudera Director Service Provider Interface (Cloudera Director SPI).
- Google Cloud Platform is now supported via an open-source implementation of the Cloudera Director SPI, the Cloudera Director Google Plugin.
- Database servers set up by Cloudera Director can now be managed from the UI.
- Users can now specify custom scripts to be run after cluster creation. Example scripts for enabling HDFS High Availability and Kerberos are available on the Cloudera GitHub site.
- The Cloudera Director database can now be encrypted. Encryption is enabled by default for new installations.
- Cluster and Cloudera Manager configurations can now be set via the UI.
- A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.5.0 for details.
What's New in Cloudera Director 1.1.3
- A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.1.3 for details.
- Cloudera Director's disk preparation method now supports RHEL 6.6, which is supported by Cloudera Manager 5.4.
- Custom endpoints for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) are now supported.
- To ensure version compatibility between Cloudera Manager and CDH, Cloudera Director now defaults to installing the latest 5.3 version of Cloudera Manager and CDH, rather than installing the latest post-5.3 version.
What's New in Cloudera Director 1.1.2
- A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.1.2 for details.
What's New in Cloudera Director 1.1.1
- A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.1.1 for details.
What's New in Cloudera Director 1.1.0
- Support for demand-based shrinking of clusters
- Integration with Amazon RDS to enable end-to-end setup of clusters as well as related databases
- Native client bindings for Cloudera Director API in Java and Python
- Faster bootstrap of Cloudera Manager and clusters
- Improved User Interface of Cloudera Director server including display of health of clusters and ability to customize cluster setups
- Improvements to usability and documentation