Apache Ranger is getting a lot of momentum in the open source community, and 0.5 release promises to be a bigger step towards the vision of providing comprehensive security for Hadoop. The 0.5 release is focused on the following areas
Release Theme | Description | Benefit to users | Apache JIRA# |
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Extensibility - Ranger Stacks | Complete re-architecting Ranger to enable new plugins easily | Easily add custom plugins and use Ranger to support multiple datatores | |
Hooks for dynamic access control | Users need to support dynamic access control conditions such as geo, time etc | Users can add dynamic rules in addition to static RBAC policy evaluation | |
Authorization for YARN | Provide ability to manage queue level authorization within Yarn | Users can manage Yarn ACLs along with other Hadoop component in single UI |