Question regarding WebHDFS security
All, We're planning the rollout of kerberizing our hadoop cluster. The issue is that we have several single tenant services that rely on contacting the HDFS cluster over WebHDFS without credentials. So, the concern is that once we kerberize the cluster, we will no longer be able to access it without credentials from these single-tenant systems, which results in a painful upgrade dependency. Any suggestions for dealing with this problem in a simple way? If not, any suggestion for a better forum to ask this question? Thanks in advance, Ben This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com
RE: Question regarding WebHDFS security
Hey David, Thanks. Yep - that's the easy part. Let me clarify. Consider that we have: 1. A Hadoop cluster running without Kerberos 2. A number of services contacting that hadoop cluster and retrieving data from it using WebHDFS. Clearly the services don't need to login to WebHDFS using credentials because the cluster isn't kerberized just yet. Now what happens when we enable Kerberos on the cluster? We still need to allow those services to contact the cluster without credentials until we can upgrade them. Otherwise we'll have downtime. So what can we do? As a possible solution, is there any way to allow unprotected access from just those machines until we can upgrade them? Thanks, Ben From: David Morel [dmo...@amakuru.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 2:33 PM To: Benjamin Ross Cc: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security Le 5 juil. 2016 7:42 PM, "Benjamin Ross" mailto:br...@lattice-engines.com>> a écrit : > > All, > We're planning the rollout of kerberizing our hadoop cluster. The issue is > that we have several single tenant services that rely on contacting the HDFS > cluster over WebHDFS without credentials. So, the concern is that once we > kerberize the cluster, we will no longer be able to access it without > credentials from these single-tenant systems, which results in a painful > upgrade dependency. > > Any suggestions for dealing with this problem in a simple way? > > If not, any suggestion for a better forum to ask this question? > > Thanks in advance, > Ben It's usually not super-hard to wrap your http calls with a module that handles Kerberos, depending on what language you use. For instance https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Hadoop::WebHDFS::LWP does this. David Click here<https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ==> to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com
Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security
For consuming REST APIs like webhdfs, where kerberos is inconvenient or impossible, you may want to consider using a trusted proxy like Apache Knox. It will authenticate as knox to the backend services and act on behalf of your custom services. It will also allow you to authenticate to Knox from the services using a number of different mechanisms. http://knox.apache.org On Jul 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Benjamin Ross mailto:br...@lattice-engines.com>> wrote: Hey David, Thanks. Yep - that's the easy part. Let me clarify. Consider that we have: 1. A Hadoop cluster running without Kerberos 2. A number of services contacting that hadoop cluster and retrieving data from it using WebHDFS. Clearly the services don't need to login to WebHDFS using credentials because the cluster isn't kerberized just yet. Now what happens when we enable Kerberos on the cluster? We still need to allow those services to contact the cluster without credentials until we can upgrade them. Otherwise we'll have downtime. So what can we do? As a possible solution, is there any way to allow unprotected access from just those machines until we can upgrade them? Thanks, Ben From: David Morel [dmo...@amakuru.net<mailto:dmo...@amakuru.net>] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 2:33 PM To: Benjamin Ross Cc: user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org> Subject: Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security Le 5 juil. 2016 7:42 PM, "Benjamin Ross" mailto:br...@lattice-engines.com>> a écrit : > > All, > We're planning the rollout of kerberizing our hadoop cluster. The issue is > that we have several single tenant services that rely on contacting the HDFS > cluster over WebHDFS without credentials. So, the concern is that once we > kerberize the cluster, we will no longer be able to access it without > credentials from these single-tenant systems, which results in a painful > upgrade dependency. > > Any suggestions for dealing with this problem in a simple way? > > If not, any suggestion for a better forum to ask this question? > > Thanks in advance, > Ben It's usually not super-hard to wrap your http calls with a module that handles Kerberos, depending on what language you use. For instance https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Hadoop::WebHDFS::LWP does this. David Click here<https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ==> to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com<http://www.websense.com/>
Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security
On 5 Jul 2016, at 20:43, Benjamin Ross wrote: Hey David, Thanks. Yep - that's the easy part. Let me clarify. Consider that we have: 1. A Hadoop cluster running without Kerberos 2. A number of services contacting that hadoop cluster and retrieving data from it using WebHDFS. Clearly the services don't need to login to WebHDFS using credentials because the cluster isn't kerberized just yet. Now what happens when we enable Kerberos on the cluster? We still need to allow those services to contact the cluster without credentials until we can upgrade them. Otherwise we'll have downtime. So what can we do? As a possible solution, is there any way to allow unprotected access from just those machines until we can upgrade them? I doubt you can enable Kerberos without downtime anyway :) But apart from using Knox as mentioned by Larry (didn't use it so couldn't comment on that and wether it would support some sort of fallback allowing from near-zero downtime), I guess your apps will need support for both Kerberized and non-Kerberized HTTP, which you can drive with some master switch from something appropriate, be it DB or Zookeeper or whatever. In that case working on the client classes/apps and making them support both would be preliminary to anything else. But I may be missing the point again? David - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@hadoop.apache.org
Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security
On 5 Jul 2016, at 22:31, David Morel wrote: On 5 Jul 2016, at 20:43, Benjamin Ross wrote: Hey David, Thanks. Yep - that's the easy part. Let me clarify. Consider that we have: 1. A Hadoop cluster running without Kerberos 2. A number of services contacting that hadoop cluster and retrieving data from it using WebHDFS. Clearly the services don't need to login to WebHDFS using credentials because the cluster isn't kerberized just yet. Now what happens when we enable Kerberos on the cluster? We still need to allow those services to contact the cluster without credentials until we can upgrade them. Otherwise we'll have downtime. So what can we do? As a possible solution, is there any way to allow unprotected access from just those machines until we can upgrade them? I doubt you can enable Kerberos without downtime anyway :) But apart from using Knox as mentioned by Larry (didn't use it so couldn't comment on that and wether it would support some sort of fallback allowing from near-zero downtime), I guess your apps will need support for both Kerberized and non-Kerberized HTTP, which you can drive with some master switch from something appropriate, be it DB or Zookeeper or whatever. In that case working on the client classes/apps and making them support both would be preliminary to anything else. But I may be missing the point again? David Actually, looking at the module I pointed to, it uses under the hood the LWP::Authen module that will transparently do that, since the way it works is the server drives the client behaviour. I had forgotten about that, my bad :( So you don't need a switch, just a library that acts according to the spec, and I suspect most languages would have one. David - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@hadoop.apache.org
RE: Question regarding WebHDFS security
Thanks Larry. I'll need to look into the details quite a bit further, but I take it that I can define some mapping such that requests for particular file paths will trigger particular credentials to be used (until everything's upgraded)? Currently all requests come in using permissive auth with username yarn. Once we enable Kerberos, I'd optimally like for that to translate to use some set of Kerberos credentials if the path is /foo and some other set of credentials if the path is /bar. This will only be temporary until things are fully upgraded. Appreciate the help. Ben From: Larry McCay [lmc...@hortonworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 4:23 PM To: Benjamin Ross Cc: David Morel; user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security For consuming REST APIs like webhdfs, where kerberos is inconvenient or impossible, you may want to consider using a trusted proxy like Apache Knox. It will authenticate as knox to the backend services and act on behalf of your custom services. It will also allow you to authenticate to Knox from the services using a number of different mechanisms. http://knox.apache.org On Jul 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Benjamin Ross mailto:br...@lattice-engines.com>> wrote: Hey David, Thanks. Yep - that's the easy part. Let me clarify. Consider that we have: 1. A Hadoop cluster running without Kerberos 2. A number of services contacting that hadoop cluster and retrieving data from it using WebHDFS. Clearly the services don't need to login to WebHDFS using credentials because the cluster isn't kerberized just yet. Now what happens when we enable Kerberos on the cluster? We still need to allow those services to contact the cluster without credentials until we can upgrade them. Otherwise we'll have downtime. So what can we do? As a possible solution, is there any way to allow unprotected access from just those machines until we can upgrade them? Thanks, Ben From: David Morel [dmo...@amakuru.net<mailto:dmo...@amakuru.net>] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 2:33 PM To: Benjamin Ross Cc: user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org> Subject: Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security Le 5 juil. 2016 7:42 PM, "Benjamin Ross" mailto:br...@lattice-engines.com>> a écrit : > > All, > We're planning the rollout of kerberizing our hadoop cluster. The issue is > that we have several single tenant services that rely on contacting the HDFS > cluster over WebHDFS without credentials. So, the concern is that once we > kerberize the cluster, we will no longer be able to access it without > credentials from these single-tenant systems, which results in a painful > upgrade dependency. > > Any suggestions for dealing with this problem in a simple way? > > If not, any suggestion for a better forum to ask this question? > > Thanks in advance, > Ben It's usually not super-hard to wrap your http calls with a module that handles Kerberos, depending on what language you use. For instance https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Hadoop::WebHDFS::LWP does this. David Click here<https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ==> to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com<http://www.websense.com/>
Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security
Hi Ben - It doesn’t really work exactly that way but will likely be able to handle your usecase. I suggest that you bring the conversation over to the dev@ for Knox. We can delve into the details of your usecase and your options there. thanks, —larry On Jul 5, 2016, at 10:58 PM, Benjamin Ross mailto:br...@lattice-engines.com>> wrote: Thanks Larry. I'll need to look into the details quite a bit further, but I take it that I can define some mapping such that requests for particular file paths will trigger particular credentials to be used (until everything's upgraded)? Currently all requests come in using permissive auth with username yarn. Once we enable Kerberos, I'd optimally like for that to translate to use some set of Kerberos credentials if the path is /foo and some other set of credentials if the path is /bar. This will only be temporary until things are fully upgraded. Appreciate the help. Ben From: Larry McCay [lmc...@hortonworks.com<mailto:lmc...@hortonworks.com>] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 4:23 PM To: Benjamin Ross Cc: David Morel; user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org> Subject: Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security For consuming REST APIs like webhdfs, where kerberos is inconvenient or impossible, you may want to consider using a trusted proxy like Apache Knox. It will authenticate as knox to the backend services and act on behalf of your custom services. It will also allow you to authenticate to Knox from the services using a number of different mechanisms. http://knox.apache.org<http://knox.apache.org/> On Jul 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Benjamin Ross mailto:br...@lattice-engines.com>> wrote: Hey David, Thanks. Yep - that's the easy part. Let me clarify. Consider that we have: 1. A Hadoop cluster running without Kerberos 2. A number of services contacting that hadoop cluster and retrieving data from it using WebHDFS. Clearly the services don't need to login to WebHDFS using credentials because the cluster isn't kerberized just yet. Now what happens when we enable Kerberos on the cluster? We still need to allow those services to contact the cluster without credentials until we can upgrade them. Otherwise we'll have downtime. So what can we do? As a possible solution, is there any way to allow unprotected access from just those machines until we can upgrade them? Thanks, Ben From: David Morel [dmo...@amakuru.net<mailto:dmo...@amakuru.net>] Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 2:33 PM To: Benjamin Ross Cc: user@hadoop.apache.org<mailto:user@hadoop.apache.org> Subject: Re: Question regarding WebHDFS security Le 5 juil. 2016 7:42 PM, "Benjamin Ross" mailto:br...@lattice-engines.com>> a écrit : > > All, > We're planning the rollout of kerberizing our hadoop cluster. The issue is > that we have several single tenant services that rely on contacting the HDFS > cluster over WebHDFS without credentials. So, the concern is that once we > kerberize the cluster, we will no longer be able to access it without > credentials from these single-tenant systems, which results in a painful > upgrade dependency. > > Any suggestions for dealing with this problem in a simple way? > > If not, any suggestion for a better forum to ask this question? > > Thanks in advance, > Ben It's usually not super-hard to wrap your http calls with a module that handles Kerberos, depending on what language you use. For instance https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Hadoop::WebHDFS::LWP does this. David Click here<https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/MZbqvYs5QwJvpeaetUwhCQ==> to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com<http://www.websense.com/>
