Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud allows users to deploy analytic workloads into their cloud accounts. These workloads cover the entire data lifecycle and are managed from a central multi-cloud Cloudera Control Plane.
CDP provides the flexibility to deploy these resources into public or private subnets. Nearly unanimously, we’ve seen customers deploy their workloads to private subnets. It is the most secure deployment option, but this prevents direct access to their resources from the public internet and makes it difficult for their users to access the UIs and APIs in SDX and DataHub clusters. To give users access to these resources, customers have to set up complex custom networking such as custom proxy servers or point-to-point networking solutions like VPN Gateways, Direct Connect etc.
Point-to-point solutions can be expensive to provision and take multiple days of coordination with numerous IT, network, and cloud operations teams to implement. This can be onerous for customers who want to do a POC in an isolated VPC not connected to corporate networks. In addition, our current highly distributed work environment has made these point-to-point solutions, which worked great when we were all in one office, a less attractive alternative.
Today, Cloudera has launched the CDP Endpoint Access Gateway. At the heart of the solution is an internet-facing Load Balancer provisioned in the