Hortonworks Data Platform

Knox Gateway Administration Guide

2014-12-02


Contents

1. Apache Knox Gateway Overview
1. Knox Gateway Deployment Architecture
2. Supported Hadoop Services
2. Configuring the Knox Gateway
1. Create and Secure the Gateway Directories
2. Customize the Gateway Port and Path
3. Manage the Master Secret
4. Manually Redeploy Cluster Topologies
5. Manually Start and Stop Apache Knox
3. Defining Cluster Topologies
4. Configuring the Knox Topology to Connect to Hadoop Cluster Services
1. Setting up Hadoop Service URLs
2. Example Service Definitions
3. Validating Service Connectivity
5. Mapping the Internal Nodes to External URLs
1. Setting Up a Hostmap Provider
2. Example of an EC2 Hostmap Provider
3. Example of Sandbox Hostmap Provider
4. Enabling Hostmap Debugging
6. Configuring Authentication
1. Setting Up LDAP Authentication
2. Example of an Active Directory Configuration
3. Example of an OpenLDAP Configuration
4. Testing an LDAP Provider
5. Setting Up HTTP Header Authentication for Federation_SSO
6. Example of SiteMinder Configuration
7. Testing HTTP Header Tokens
7. Configuring Identity Assertion
1. Structure of the Identity-Assertion Provider
2. Define Pseudo Identity Assertion
3. Mapping Authenticated User to Cluster
4. Example User Mapping
5. Mapping Authenticated Users to Groups
6. Configuring Group Mapping
7. Examples of Group Mapping
8. Configuring Service Level Authorization
1. Setting Up an Authorization Provider
2. Examples of Authorization
9. Audit Gateway Activity
1. Audit Log Fields
2. Change Roll Frequency of the Audit Log
10. Gateway Security
1. Implementing Web Application Security
2. Configuring Protection Filter Against Cross Site Request Forgery Attacks
3. Validate CSRF Filtering
4. Configuring Knox With a Secured Hadoop Cluster
5. Configure Wire Encryption
6. Self-Signed Certificate with Specific Hostname for Evaluations
7. CA-Signed Certificates for Production
8. Setting Up Trust for the Knox Gateway Clients
11. Setting Up Knox for WebHDFS HA
1. Configure WebHDFS for Knox
2. Configure Knox for WebHDFS HA

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