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.

What's New in Cloudera Director 2.1.1

  • A number of issues have been fixed. See Issues Fixed in Cloudera Director 2.1.1 for details.
  • Cloudera Director now includes support for the following Microsoft Azure instance types:
    • Standard_DS12_v2
    • Standard_DS13_v2
    • Standard_DS14_v2
  • On Microsoft Azure, Cloudera Director now supports the RHEL 6.7 image published by Red Hat in partnership with Microsoft.

What's New in Cloudera Director 2.1.0

What's New in Cloudera Director 2.0.0

  • 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.

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

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 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 web 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 web 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.
  • 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.

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