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Sidharta Seethana commented on YARN-5673:
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[~templedf], I think this is restricted to the container-executor binary,
specifically, not ContainerExecutor. You are right, though - about additional
functionality being pushed into lower layers and the use ENV variables. This
former was to ensure backward compatibility at the ContainerExecutor interface
layer. The latter was to ensure a) no changes to protocols b) allow for
existing apps to use the new functionality without changes (e.g MR, Spark). We
should discuss these in a new/different JIRA, though.
> [Umbrella] Re-write container-executor to improve security, extensibility,
> and portability
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>
> Key: YARN-5673
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-5673
> Project: Hadoop YARN
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: nodemanager
> Reporter: Varun Vasudev
> Assignee: Varun Vasudev
> Attachments: container-executor Re-write Design Document.pdf
>
>
> As YARN adds support for new features that require administrator
> privileges(such as support for network throttling and docker), we’ve had to
> add new capabilities to the container-executor. This has led to a recognition
> that the current container-executor security features as well as the code
> could be improved. The current code is fragile and it’s hard to add new
> features without causing regressions. Some of the improvements that need to
> be made are -
> *Security*
> Currently the container-executor has limited security features. It relies
> primarily on the permissions set on the binary but does little additional
> security beyond that. There are few outstanding issues today -
> - No audit log
> - No way to disable features - network throttling and docker support are
> built in and there’s no way to turn them off at a container-executor level
> - Code can be improved - a lot of the code switches users back and forth in
> an arbitrary manner
> - No input validation - the paths, and files provided at invocation are not
> validated or required to be in some specific location
> - No signing functionality - there is no way to enforce that the binary was
> invoked by the NM and not by any other process
> *Code Issues*
> The code layout and implementation themselves can be improved. Some issues
> there are -
> - No support for log levels - everything is logged and this can’t be turned
> on or off
> - Extremely long set of invocation parameters(specifically during container
> launch) which makes turning features on or off complicated
> - Poor test coverage - it’s easy to introduce regressions today due to the
> lack of a proper test setup
> - Duplicate functionality - there is some amount of code duplication
> - Hard to make improvements or add new features due to the issues raised above
> *Portability*
> - The container-executor mixes platform dependent APIs with platform
> independent APIs making it hard to run it on multiple platforms. Allowing it
> to run on multiple platforms also improves the overall code structure .
> One option is to improve the existing container-executor, however it might be
> easier to start from scratch. That allows existing functionality to be
> supported until we are ready to switch to the new code.
> This umbrella JIRA is to capture all the work required for the new code. I'm
> going to work on a design doc for the changes - any suggestions or
> improvements are welcome.
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