New Features and Changes in Cloudera Director

New Features and Changes in Cloudera Director 2

The following sections describe what’s new and changed in each Cloudera Director 2 release.

AWS Spot Instances and Google Cloud Platform Preemptible Instances are supported.
Setup of clusters that are highly available and authenticated through Kerberos is automated.
You can automate submission of jobs to clusters with dynamic creation and termination of clusters.
You can run custom scripts after cluster setup and before cluster termination.
The user interface is enhanced, with deeper insights into cluster health.
Reliability of cluster modifications is increased, including rollback in some failure scenarios.
RHEL 7.1 is supported.
A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 2.0.0 for details.

The following sections describe what’s new and changed in each Cloudera Director 1 release.

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.

A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.5.1 for details.

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 through 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.
You 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 through the UI.
A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.5.0 for details.

A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.1.3 for details.
The Cloudera Director 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.

A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.1.2 for details.

A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 1.1.1 for details.

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

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