Apache Ranger delivers a comprehensive approach to security for a Hadoop cluster. It provides central security policy administration across the core enterprise security requirements of authorizaiton, auditing and data protection.

This chapter describes the manual installation process Apache Ranger and the Ranger plug-ins in a LINUX Hadoop environment. It includes information about the following steps:

For information about how to use Ranger, see the Ranger User Guide. For information about installing Ranger over Ambari, see Installing Ranger Over Ambari 2.0.