March 14, 2024

RHEL 8 enabled by default

RHEL 8 is now used as a default operating system for all newly created Data Lake, FreeIPA, and Cloudera Data Hub cluster running Cloudera Runtime 7.2.17 and newer.

Data Lake and Cloudera Data Hub clusters running Cloudera Runtime 7.2.17 support both CentOS 7 and RHEL 8. Earlier Cloudera Runtime versions supported CentOS only, but Cloudera will not publish any updates or fixes for CentOS-based images after June 2024. Cloudera Runtime 7.2.18 and newer only support RHEL.

The RHEL images, which are CIS Level 1 compliant, are provided with an embedded RHEL license that is restricted for Cloudera Public Cloud use case. Cloudera's RHEL repository connection is activated during Cloudera deployment and the OS is installed from that repository. Only limited OS packages are hosted in this RHEL repository, but additional OS packages can be requested by filing a support ticket with details on software name, version, and software URL (preferred) or a list of missing OS packages.