Security for Flow Management clusters and users in Cloudera on cloud

Cloudera is a secure and governed cloud service platform that offers a broad set of enterprise data cloud services with the key data analytics and artificial intelligence functionality that enterprises require.

Cloudera provides the following default security features for flow management users and clusters:

• Single-sign on (SSO) authentication with Apache Knox.
• Metadata management and governance capabilities with Apache Atlas.
• Flow versioning and management with Apache NiFi Registry.
• TLS encryption to secure communications over the network.
• Fine-grained authorization to do a specific action and/or operation with Apache Ranger.

For more information, see the identity management section in the Cloudera Security Overview.

This document explains how to authorize a new user to access and manage NiFi and NiFi Registry.