Enabling Knox authentication for Flink Dashboard

You can use Knox authentication for Flink Dashboard to provide integration with customer Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions. Knox uses Kerberos (SPNEGO) to strongly authenticate itself towards the services.

Before you begin

Install and configure Knox on your cluster. For more information, see the Installing Apache Knox documentation.
Enable Kerberos authentication for Flink and the Flink Dashboard. For more information, see Enabling security for Apache Flink and Enabling SPENGO authentication for Flink Dashboard sections.