Hi all, FYI, the graduation post has been published in the Apache blog here <https://blogs.apache.org/sentry/entry/sentry_graduates_to_a_top>. Cheers!
Best, Hao On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Hao Hao <hao....@cloudera.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot Sravya for the suggestions! Will add the HDFS sync feature > and I have created the Jira for creating a apache blog account. > > Best, > Hao > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Sravya Tirukkovalur <sra...@cloudera.com > > wrote: > >> Thanks a lot for putting this together Hao! A graduation blog post is a >> great idea! >> >> One comment: Do we want to a line or two about HDFS sync feature and how >> it >> allows setting rules for hive databases and tables in one place, rather >> than manually keeping the Hive permissions and HDFS permissions in sync? >> >> Also, do you have a apache blog account? If not, please file an infra >> ticket. See INFRA-6911 for example. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Hao Hao <hao....@cloudera.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I drafted a gradation blog post for Sentry and attached here. Please >> feel >> > free to give recommendations and comments. Thanks a lot! >> > >> > Best, >> > Hao >> > >> > Sentry Graduation Blog >> > >> > We are very excited to announce that Apache Sentry >> > <http://sentry.apache.org/> has graduated out of Incubator and is now >> an >> > Apache Top Level Project! Sentry, which provides centralized >> fine-grained >> > access control on metadata and data stored on Apache Hadoop cluster, is >> > introduced as an Apache Incubator project back in August 2013. In the >> past >> > two and half years, the development community grew significantly to a >> large >> > number of contributors from various organizations. Upon graduation, >> there >> > were more than 50 contributors, 31 of whom had become committers. >> > >> > What’s Sentry >> > >> > While Hadoop has strong security at the filesystem level, it lacked the >> > granular support needed to adequately secure access to data by users >> and BI >> > applications. This problem forces users to make a choice: either leave >> data >> > unprotected or lock out users entirely. Most of the time, the preferred >> > choice is the latter, severely inhibiting access to data in Hadoop. >> Sentry >> > provides the ability to enforce role-based access control to data and/or >> > privileges on data for authenticated users in a fine-grained manner. For >> > example, Sentry allows access control at the server, database, table, >> view >> > and even column scope at different privilege levels including select, >> > insert, and all for Apache Hive and Apache Impala. >> > >> > >> > What’s new >> > >> > During incubation, Sentry had six releases and has continued to grow on >> > providing unified authorization policy management across different >> Hadoop >> > components. Some of them including: >> > >> > - >> > >> > most recent integration support with Apache Kafka, Apache Solr and >> > Apache Sqoop; >> > - >> > >> > audit log support for data governance purpose; >> > - >> > >> > improve the service stability with Sentry High Availability (HA); >> > - >> > >> > provides import/export tool for replicating the entire permissions >> on a >> > Sentry database. >> > >> > Future Work >> > >> > Graduation is a terrific milestone, but only the beginning for Sentry. >> We >> > are looking forward to continuing to help grow the Sentry community and >> > fostering a strong ecosystem around the project. >> > >> > We are targeting at strength Sentry core with finer granularity >> > authorization model, as well as enable easier integration process with >> > other components to make Sentry highly adaptable. Meanwhile we are >> aiming >> > at supportability enhancements such as bettering Sentry Web UI. >> > >> > How to Get Involved >> > >> > The Sentry community now includes new core committers, an active >> developer >> > mailing list where future releases and patches are discussed, and >> > increasing interest in running additional frameworks on Sentry. We >> strongly >> > encourage new people join Sentry and contribute >> > <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/How+to+Contribute> >> > through jumping on the discussions on the mailing list, filing bugs >> through >> > Jira, reviewing other's’ code or even providing new patches. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Sravya Tirukkovalur >> > >
