No. Policies are cached on the hosts running the plugin (your Kafka broker). If Ranger admin become unavailable (i.e. because of a failover of the backend DB) you are unable to create new policies or manage existing, but authorizations on topics are not affected
Il sab 20 mag 2023, 18:15 George Goh <george...@spodon.com> ha scritto: > Hi, > > I'm pretty new to the Ranger ecosystem and learning about how it works > with the Apache Kafka project. > > One of the projects I'm working with, uses Ranger to provide ACL to Kafka > topics, and uses an external postgres for datastore. > > What is the effect to existing producers and consumers when/if postgres is > temporarily unavailable to Ranger (e.g., failover to secondary instance)? > > Will there be a need to 'reconnect' and re-authorize to topics in this > case? > > Thanks in advance! >
