+1 to adding Knox. On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:39 PM Ryan Merriman <merrim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to open a discussion around adding Apache Knox to our architecture. > I believe there are some benefits it offers in a couple different areas: > > 1. It provides a proxy to endpoints for commonly used Hadoop-ecosystem > components that we use. This would simplify our web architecture by > allowing clients to communicate with a single gateway. > 2. We could delegate many of our security needs to Knox, making our REST > application smaller and easier to maintain. > 3. Knox offers an SSO solution that would benefit Metron > > Does anyone agree that adding Apache Knox makes sense? Are there other > alternatives we should consider? > > If we do decide it is a good idea, I can see a couple features that could > be added shortly after. It would be nice to add our REST application as a > service in Knox, allowing our UIs to communicate with a single endpoint. > It would also be nice to put an SSO strategy in place and simplify > authentication in our UIs. > > Thoughts? >
