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Steve Loughran commented on HADOOP-9384:
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-1 to the current patch.
Having looked at this code, It is trying to adopt the AWS library. As s3a uses
that library, it should be possible to enable the feature directly.
I'm not closing this as a WONTFIX as the need is there, it just needs to be
targeted at the s3a implementation.
> Update S3 native fs implementation to use AWS SDK to support authorization
> through roles
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>
> Key: HADOOP-9384
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9384
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: fs/s3
> Environment: Locally: RHEL 6, AWS S3
> Remotely: AWS EC2 (RHEL 6), AWS S3
> Reporter: D. Granit
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HADOOP-9384-v2.patch, HADOOP-9384.patch
>
>
> Currently the S3 native implementation
> {{org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.Jets3tNativeFileSystemStore}} requires
> credentials to be set explicitly. Amazon allows setting credentials for
> instances instead of users, via roles. Such are rotated frequently and kept
> in a local cache all of which is handled by the AWS SDK in this case the
> {{AmazonS3Client}}. The SDK follows a specific order to establish whether
> credentials are set explicitly or via a role:
> - Environment Variables: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_KEY
> - Java System Properties: aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey
> - Instance Metadata Service, which provides the credentials associated with
> the IAM role for the EC2 instance
> as seen in
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/role-usecase-ec2app.html
> To support this feature the current {{NativeFileSystemStore}} implementation
> needs to be altered to use the AWS SDK instead of the JetS3t S3 libraries.
> A request for this feature has previously been raised as part of the Flume
> project (FLUME-1691) where the HDFS on top of S3 implementation is used as a
> manner of logging into S3 via an HDFS Sink.
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