I think the only concern is bandwidth of developers/reviewers. While my first priority is moving 3.3 release forward now, we can work on the Knox without blocking the release.
Knox's proxy access capabilities provide an intuitive means for users to access the UI interface of Kerberos-enabled clusters.
The manifests of bigtop-deploy for deploying cluster with Kerberos has limited coverage and may be outdated since we usually run smoke-tests without it. Additional effort should be needed for testing the Knox well. Thanks, Masatake Iwasaki On 2024/03/07 16:17, Jialiang Cai wrote:
Dear community members, I trust this message finds you well. I am reaching out to initiate a thoughtful discussion regarding the ongoing support for Knox within the Bigtop open-source community. It has come to my attention that a pull request (PR) was submitted in 2022 by a contributor, aiming to integrate Knox support. The significance of this effort lies in its ability to enhance Knox functionality, particularly in clusters employing Kerberos. Knox's proxy access capabilities provide an intuitive means for users to access the UI interface of Kerberos-enabled clusters. Regrettably, the aforementioned PR appears to have been inactive, with no recent engagement from the original author. Despite attempts to reach out in August 2023, there has been no response. Recognizing the importance of this feature and its potential benefits to the community, I am contemplating the creation of a new pull request to continue the integration of Knox support into Bigtop. This would ensure that the development remains dynamic and that the valuable contributions made by the community are not impeded by an inactive or departed contributor. For your convenience, the link to the original PR is provided here: [https://github.com/apache/bigtop/pull/1029](https://github.com/apache/bigtop/pull/1029) I would greatly appreciate any insights, suggestions, or feedback from the community on this matter. Your perspectives are invaluable in determining the most appropriate course of action to keep the project advancing. Thank you for your time and consideration. Best regards, jialiang
