As more and more enterprises are adapting to utilize hadoop, integrating the enterprise users into the hadoop environment and enabling these users to access hadoop services and clusters becomes critical. Typically, enterprises manage the users and groups through directory servers and Hadoop services need to integrate with these enterprise directory servers (like Active Directory, LDAP etc...). This process presents its own unique set of challenges.
In this session, the speakers review the background of user and group management for Hadoop as well as covers various scenarios supported in Apache Ranger while interacting with AD or LDAP servers. This session also examines various use cases and some of the common challenges faced in the enterprise environments while interacting with Active Directory or LDAP server including filtering out users and/or groups to be brought into Hadoop from AD or LDAP servers, restricting access to a set of users and/or groups from AD, etc…