shanyu zhao created YARN-9834:
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             Summary: Allow using a pool of local users to run Yarn Secure 
Container in secure mode
                 Key: YARN-9834
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-9834
             Project: Hadoop YARN
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: nodemanager
    Affects Versions: 3.1.2
            Reporter: shanyu zhao


Yarn Secure Container in secure mode allows separation of different user's 
local files and container processes running on the same node manager. This 
depends on an out of band service such as SSSD/Winbind to sync all domain users 
to local machine.

SSSD/Winbind user sync has lots of overhead, especially for large corporations. 
Also if running Yarn inside Kubernetes cluster (meaning node managers running 
inside Docker container), it doesn't make sense for each container to sync a 
whole copy of domain users.

We should allow a new configuration to Yarn, such that we can pre-create a pool 
of users on each machine/Docker container. And at runtime, Yarn allocates a 
local user to the domain user that submits the application. When all containers 
of that user and all files belonging to that user are deleted, we can release 
the allocation and allow other users to use the same local user to run their 
Yarn containers.

We propose to add these new configurations:
{code:java}
yarn.nodemanager.linux-container-executor.secure-mode.use-local-user, defaults 
to false
yarn.nodemanager.linux-container-executor.secure-mode.local-user-prefix, 
defaults to "user"{code}
If we enable this feature, with local-user-prefix set to "user", then we expect 
there are pre-created local users user0 - usern, where n equals to:
{code:java}
yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores {code}
We can use an in-memory allocator to keep the domain user to local user mapping.

Limitations:

1) This feature does not support PRIVATE type of resource allocation. Because 
PRIVATE type of resources are potentially cached in the node manager for a very 
long time, supporting it will be a security problem that a user might be able 
to peek into previous user's PRIVATE resources. We can modify code to treat all 
PRIVATE type of resource as APPLICATION.

2) It is recommended to enable DominantResourceCalculator so that no more than 
"cpu-vcores" number of concurrent containers running on a node manager:
{code:java}
yarn.scheduler.capacity.resource-calculator
= org.apache.hadoop.yarn.util.resource.DominantResourceCalculator {code}
3) Currently this feature does not work with Yarn Node Manager recovery. We may 
add recovery support in the future when we hook up with the right calls in the 
recovery flow.

 



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