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 Anaconda for cluster management has been replaced by Anaconda Scale.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 todask
- Enabled
notebook
anddask
plugins to be installed alongside existing Hadoop installations - Added
conda
profile plugin setting forssl_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
andacluster 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 foracluster open
command - Added license information to
acluster info
- Removed optional
security_group
setting fromproviders.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