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Niels Basjes commented on PIG-4796:
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I ran an additional test last night (same script) that read over 500 files
totaling 885 GiB (over 3,000,000,000 records) from HDFS.
Each file was 1 mapper (due to gzip) which averaged at 25 minutes each (times
varied between 17 minutes and 39 minutes).
The sheer number of mappers caused them to 'wait in line' on the cluster so the
last mappers started about 2:30H after the job was submitted.
After 2hrs, 55mins, 24sec this entire job completed successfully (with kerberos
tickets that expire after 5/10 minutes).
> Authenticate with Kerberos using a keytab file
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>
> Key: PIG-4796
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4796
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 0.15.0
> Reporter: Niels Basjes
> Assignee: Niels Basjes
> Labels: feature, kerberos, security
> Attachments: 2016-02-18-1510-PIG-4796.patch,
> 2016-02-18-PIG-4796-rough-proof-of-concept.patch, PIG-4796-2016-02-23.patch
>
>
> When running in a Kerberos secured environment users are faced with the
> limitation that their jobs cannot run longer than the (remaining) ticket
> lifetime of their Kerberos tickets. The environment I work in these tickets
> expire after 10 hours, thus limiting the maximum job duration to at most 10
> hours (which is a problem).
> In the Hadoop tooling there is a feature where you can authenticate using a
> Kerberos keytab file (essentially a file that contains the encrypted form of
> the kerberos principal and password). Using this the running application can
> request new tickets from the Kerberos server when the initial tickets expire.
> In my Java/Hadoop applications I commonly include these two lines:
> {code}
> System.setProperty("java.security.krb5.conf", "/etc/krb5.conf");
> UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromKeytab("[email protected]",
> "/home/nbasjes/.krb/nbasjes.keytab");
> {code}
> This way I have run an Apache Flink based application for more than 170 hours
> (about a week) on the kerberos secured Yarn cluster.
> What I propose is to have a feature that I can set the relevant kerberos
> values in my pig script and from there be able to run a pig job for many days
> on the secured cluster.
> Proposal how this can look in a pig script:
> {code}
> SET java.security.krb5.conf '/etc/krb5.conf'
> SET job.security.krb5.principal '[email protected]'
> SET job.security.krb5.keytab '/home/nbasjes/.krb/nbasjes.keytab'
> {code}
> So iff all of these are set (or at least the last two) then the
> aforementioned UserGroupInformation.loginUserFromKeytab method is called
> before submitting the job to the cluster.
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