Release notesΒΆ

Below is a summary of features, bug fixes, and improvements for each Anaconda for cluster management release.

Anaconda for cluster management 1.4.4

Note: This is the last feature release of Anaconda for cluster management. Anaconda for cluster management has been replaced by Anaconda Scale.

Backend improvements:

  • Use full paths for system commands

Anaconda for cluster management 1.4.3

Backend improvements:

  • Fix license check and support information

Anaconda for cluster management 1.4.2

Features:

  • Updates to examples in documentation

Backend improvements:

  • Improved group configuration/detection on RHEL/CentOS
  • Enabled configuration of anaconda group name

Anaconda for cluster management 1.4.1

Features:

  • Renamed distributed plugin to dask
  • Enabled notebook and dask plugins to be installed alongside existing Hadoop installations
  • Added conda profile plugin setting for ssl_verify

Anaconda for cluster management 1.4.0

Features:

  • Added setting for channel_alias for improved integration with Anaconda Repository

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed provisioning on Windows client machines
  • Fixed issue with profile setting for conda access control lists
  • Fixed issue with certain plugin status checks
  • Fixed issue with Storm plugin installation

Backend improvements:

  • Improved management and configurability of distributed plugin
  • Updated version of Apache Libcloud dependency (0.20.1)
  • Updated to accept new license format (backwards compatible with existing licenses)
  • Removed deprecated acluster submit command due to inconsistencies with environments
  • Removed acluster defaultenv and acluster setenv commands due to inconsistencies with environments
  • Consolidated sample profile to a single profile

Anaconda for cluster management 1.3.3

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed SSH private key permissions check

Backend improvements:

  • Implemented Salt ACL functionality
  • Implemented Salt PAM authentication
  • Removed sudo requirement after install

Anaconda for cluster management 1.3.2

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed installation prefix and default channel documentation and tests

Backend improvements:

  • Improved detection of plugin installations and plugin status messages

Anaconda for cluster management 1.3.1

Features:

  • Updated plugin: Spark 1.6
  • Added option to disable creation of /etc/profile.d/conda.sh on cluster nodes

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed R path for Jupyter Notebook
  • Fixed issue with Amazon EC2 block device mapping
  • Fixed issue with configuration of default conda channels
  • Improved warnings for misconfigured SSH keys
  • Improved error message when AWS Key Pair is missing

Backend improvements:

  • Added configurable download URLs for plugins (used for airgap installations): Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Storm
  • Added deprecated warning for acluster submit command due to inconsistencies with environments
  • Added detection for enterprise Hadoop installations and warns before installing conflicting services
  • Configured HDFS for short-circuit reads by default
  • Pinned versions of dependencies in conda recipe

Anaconda for cluster management 1.3.0

Features:

  • Simplified bare-metal cluster setup using profile/provider instead of clusters.d
  • Added ability to specify conda packages and environments in profile plugin settings
  • Switched to system-wide .condarc file for users on cluster nodes
  • Added centralized logging via Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana plugins
  • Added --no-browser option for acluster open command
  • Added license information to acluster info
  • Removed optional security_group setting from providers.yaml template and documentation
  • Added vpc_id setting for Amazon EC2 to use with default security group
  • Improved documentation for bare-metal and cloud-based cluster creation
  • Added more information about requirements, FAQs, and known issues to documentation

Bug Fixes:

  • Improved error messages for cloud providers, security groups, and when no clusters are defined
  • Fixed error when command output contained Unicode characters
  • Fixed repeated prompts when installing multiple plugins

Backend improvements:

  • Added test for SSH connectivity during bare-metal cluster creation
  • Added detection/removal of orphaned clusters upon acluster destroy
  • Added detection/installation of missing sudo/bzip2 packages upon cluster creation

Anaconda for cluster management 1.2.2

Features:

  • Moved bare metal cluster setup to profile and provider files
  • Ability to specify private IPs for VPC clusters on Amazon EC2

Anaconda for cluster management 1.2.1

Features:

  • Updated plugin: Spark 1.5.1
  • Consistent output when listing clusters and profiles
  • New blog post and updated documentation

Bug Fixes:

  • Removed duplicate error messages
  • Fixed notebook plugin formulas

Anaconda for cluster management 1.2.0

Features:

  • Dedicated salt/supervisor environments
  • New cluster profile (no nesting)
  • Documentation updates
  • Improvements to CLI output

Bug Fixes:

  • Storm plugin
  • Notebook plugin
  • Logstash plugin
  • Kibana plugin
  • Elasticsearch plugin
  • Windows Fixes: push/submit

Backend improvements:

  • Refactor status/stop/restart and plugin loading
  • Refactor connection object
  • Multiple backends (initial work)

Anaconda for cluster management 1.1.0

  • Improved Jenkins testing
  • Added Storm plugin
  • Added Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana plugins (ELK stack)
  • Added Dask plugin
  • Fixes for single-node installations
  • Profile updates
  • Add setting for AWS Tags
  • Added security options (SELinux/iptables)
  • Added setting for notebook password

Anaconda for cluster management 1.0.0

  • CLI rewrite
  • Aggregated and improved CLI messaging
  • Backend library refactoring
  • Salt-packaging refactoring
  • Easier bare-metal installation
  • Added option for streaming output
  • Fixed issue with Ganglia on Ubuntu
  • Windows/libcloud Compatibility
  • Added licensing with new CLI
  • Conda remote fixes
  • Install Anaconda/Miniconda from custom url