Hadoop Delegation Tokens Explained
Apache Hadoop’s security was designed and implemented around 2009, and has been stabilizing since then. However, due to a lack of documentation around this area, it’s hard to understand or debug when...
View ArticleAutomatic TLS Configuration with Cloudera Director 2.6
Cloudera Director 2.6 and Cloudera Manager 5.13 offer a simple way to have TLS configured for Cloudera Manager and CDH clusters. In this blog post, Bill Havanki describes how to use the new feature and...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Cloudera Director 2.8?
Cloudera Director 2.8 introduces a simpler way to create clusters in AWS or Microsoft Azure that requires less information to get started than the standard procedure. A new configuration export...
View ArticleThird-Party Libraries in C6
Cloudera has put a significant amount of work into upgrading the third-party libraries used in our just-released C6 version. This major upgrade of our software has given us the opportunity to upgrade...
View ArticleNetwork Security with Cloudera Altus and Apache Spot
Introduction In the last few years, IT security threats to enterprise systems have increased, which has necessitated installing log ingestion and analysis solutions in any enterprise network. This blog...
View ArticleProtecting Hadoop Clusters From Malware Attacks
Two new strains of malware–XBash and DemonBot–are targeting Apache Hadoop servers for Bitcoin mining and DDOS purposes. This malware is scanning the internet so vigorously for Hadoop clusters that an...
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