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 authorization, 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 on the different tasks you can perform with Apache Ranger, refer to the Using Ranger to Provide Authorization in Hadoop. For information about installing Ranger over Ambari, see Installing Ranger Using Ambari.