/flink-kerberos-auth-handler

flink-kerberos-auth-handler

Primary LanguageJava

Flink kerberos authentication handler

It implements custom netty HTTP request inbound/outbound handlers to add kerberos authentication possibility to Flink. Please see FLIP-181 for further details.

How to build

In order to build the project one needs maven and java. Since the authentication handler is Flink version dependent please make sure the version are matching in pom.xml.

mvn clean install

How to install

  • Make sure the following provided dependencies are available on the cluster:
    • flink-runtime
    • hadoop-common
    • hadoop-auth
  • Add the following jar to the classpath:
target/flink-kerberos-auth-handler-<VERSION>.jar

As described in the mentioned implementation proposal Flink loads all inbound/outbound handlers with service loader automatically.

How to configure

The following configuration properties are supported:

Property Type Default Description
security.spnego.auth.enabled boolean false Turns on/off SPNEGO authentication
security.spnego.auth.principal string (none) Kerberos principal for SPNEGO name associated with the keytab
security.spnego.auth.keytab string (none) Absolute path to a Kerberos keytab file that contains the credentials for SPNEGO

License

This is licensed under Apache License Version 2.0. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.