What's new in Cloudera Data Engineering Private Cloud

Review the new features in the Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) service of the CDP Data Services 1.5.4 release.

Support for password protected private key to initialize the virtual cluster

You can now use the password protected private keys to initialize the virtual cluster. Currently, the password protected private keys are supported with RSA and EC algorithms only. For more information, see Initializing virtual clusters.

External IDE connectivity through Spark Connect-based sessions (Technical Preview)

Cloudera Data Engineering supports Spark Connect sessions, which are Cloudera Data Engineering sessions that expose the Spark Connect interface. Spark Connect sessions allow you to run Spark commands from any remote Python environment. For more information, see External IDE connectivity through Spark Connect-based sessions.