New Features and Changes in Cloudera Director

New Features and Changes in Cloudera Director 1

What's New in Cloudera Director 1.5.2

What's New in Cloudera Director 1.5.1

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

What's New in Cloudera Director 1.1.1

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