Tag: AD

This blog provides an overview of Ranger and Ranger-KMS services and how they can be used to protect the IOP 4.2 clusters. Ranger is the centralized Hadoop security manager with its own administration console through web interface. In IOP 4.2, it manages the access control list (ACL) and the user group information for multiple Hadoop components including HDFS, Yarn, Hive, HBase, and Knox. Ranger also provides the auditing capability to these components. The audit logs can be collected into the database or onto HDFS. Users can search based on their interests on these audit logs. Ranger can be configured to ... Read More

Apache Knox uses Apache Shiro provider for authentication. The Shiro provider defined in the gateway topology can use either LDAP realm or PAM realm to authenticate a user against directory services. LDAP Configurations The following LDAP specific configuration is added to the Shiro provider. These parameters work with both openLDAP and AD. Basic LDAP Configurations The example below will work for direct distinguished name (DN) of any username provided by client. If the LDAP DIT is complex where users can belong to different branches then use search base parameters described under Advanced LDAP configurations. Parameter Value main.ldapRealm org.apache.hadoop.gateway.shirorealm.KnoxLdapRealm main.ldapRealm.contextFactory.url ldap:// ... Read More

Key takeaways Learn about the current state of NoSQL databases in terms of industry adoption Read about tools that will help improve the developer productivity when working on NoSQL based applications Understand multi-model database concept and the pros and cons of multi-model database option versus polyglot persistence approach How to use NoSQL databases and big data technologies (like Hadoop and Spark) together to solve big data problems Learn how to integrate NoSQL databases with other emerging trends like microservices and container technologies like Docker. NoSQL databases have been around for several years now and have become the ... Read More

Google Allo is a new messaging app, integrated with AI (or bots) for an improved chat experience. Yes, Google already has 2 (two) messaging apps (hangouts and google messenger). Yes, Google is also rolling out a video calling app (did someone say Facetime?). I’m not going to address this strange overkill, as that has been done. What is it about? Without going into much detail, the app has some cool features built in it like quick replies, but the game changer is without a doubt the the chatbot helper (referred to as the Google assistant). The Google assistant in Allo understands your ... Read More

There have been rumors, but Google has confirmed that it will remove all sponsored search results from the right hand side, except for PLA (see example below) and knowledge panels. The total number of ads on a search page will decrease to 7 (up to 4 at the top, from 3 before, and another 3 at the bottom). Product Listing Ads exampleWhy? There are many guesses, but the truth is that Google is known to test (literally) everything. They have probably tested the new format and have found it more successful. How come? that answer is easy: Users have learned that ... Read More