Cloudera identity management Cloudera Identity Management includes the Cloudera user management system and Knox authentication. Cloudera user management systemCloudera Management Console includes a user management system that allows you to integrate your identity provider and manage user access to Cloudera resources. FreeIPA identity managementFederating identity management with users/groups maintained in FreeIPA and passwords authenticated via SSO to an SAML-compliant identity provider (IDP) provides the necessary backbone infrastructure needed for Cloudera services, without requiring you to expose your on-prem identity management system over the network. Cloud identity federationWhen accessing cloud storage in Cloudera, credentials are provided by Knox IDBroker, an identity federation solution that exchanges cluster authentication for temporary cloud credentials. Authentication with Apache KnoxApache Knox handles proxy for web UIs and APIs, and Trusted Proxy propagates the authenticated end user to the backend service.
