Requirements and Supported Versions
The following sections describe the requirements and supported operating systems, databases, and browsers for Cloudera Director.
Cloud Providers
Cloudera Director has native support for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
Cloudera Director Service Provider Interface (SPI)
The Cloudera Director SPI defines an open source Java interface that plug-ins implement to add support for additional cloud providers to Cloudera Director. For more information, see the README.md file in the SPI Cloudera Director GitHub repository.
Supported Software and Distributions
The table below lists software requirements, recommendations, and supported versions for resources used with Cloudera Director.
| Cloudera Director | Cloudera Manager and CDH | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating Systems (64-bit only) |
RHEL and CentOS 6.5, 6.7, 6.8, 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 Ubuntu 14.04 |
For AWS and Google Cloud Platform: RHEL and CentOS 6.5, 6.7, 6.8, 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 For Microsoft Azure: RHEL and CentOS 6.7, 6.8, and 7.2 RHEL 7.2 is supported only for Cloudera Manager and CDH 5.7 and higher, not for lower versions of Cloudera Manager and CDH. To use Amazon EC2 D2 instances, you must run a minimum version of RHEL 6.7 or CentOS 6.7. Earlier versions of RHEL and CentOS do not support these instance types. |
| Oracle Java SE Development Kit (JDK) |
Oracle JDK version 7 or 8 For download and installation information, see Java SE Downloads. |
Oracle JDK version 7 or 8 |
| Default Database | Embedded H2 database | Embedded PostgreSQL Database |
| Supported Databases |
MySQL 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 MariaDB 5.5 |
MySQL 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 MariaDB 5.5 |
Resource Requirements
The table below lists requirements for resources used with Cloudera Director.
| Cloudera Director | Cloudera Manager and CDH | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | 2 | 4 |
| RAM | 3.75 GB | 64 GB |
| Disk | 8 GB | 500 GB |
| Recommended AWS instance | c3.large or c4.large |
Cloudera Manager: m4.xlarge or m4.4xlarge |
| Recommended Google Cloud Platform instance | n1-standard-2 | n1-highmem-4 or n1-highmem-8 |
| Recommended Microsoft Azure instance | Standard_D3 or larger |
The following Azure instance types are supported:
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Supported Cloudera Manager and CDH Versions
Cloudera Director 2.3 can install any version of Cloudera Manager 5 with any CDH 5 parcels. Use of CDH packages is not supported.
- For AWS, see Deploying Cloudera Manager and CDH on AWS.
- For Google Cloud Platform, see Deploying Cloudera Manager and CDH on Google Compute Engine.
- For Microsoft Azure, see Deploying Cloudera Manager and CDH on Microsoft Azure.
Networking and Security Requirements
- TCP ports 22: These ports allow SSH to Cloudera Director instance.
- All traffic across all ports within the security group: This rule allows connectivity with all the components within the Hadoop cluster. This rule avoids numerous individual ports to be opened in the security group.
| Type | Protocol | Port Range | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSH (22) | TCP (6) | 22 | 0.0.0.0/0 |
| ALL Traffic | ALL | ALL | security_group_id
See note paragraph below. |
To connect to the AWS network, Cloudera recommends that you open only these ports and set up a SOCKS proxy. Unless your network has direct connection to AWS, you must set this up to access the Cloudera Director instance. This is done in a later step.
In a restricted network environment, you may want to enable minimal network traffic between instances and keep open ports to a minimum rather than enabling all network traffic between cluster instances. For information about minimal port requirements, see Ports Used by Cloudera Director.
Supported Browsers
- Mozilla Firefox 11 and higher
- Google Chrome
- Internet Explorer 9 and higher
- Safari 5 and higher