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Learning YARN

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Learning YARN

Overview of this book

Today enterprises generate huge volumes of data. In order to provide effective services and to make smarter and more intelligent decisions from these huge volumes of data, enterprises use big-data analytics. In recent years, Hadoop has been used for massive data storage and efficient distributed processing of data. The Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN) framework solves the design problems related to resource management faced by the Hadoop 1.x framework by providing a more scalable, efficient, flexible, and highly available resource management framework for distributed data processing. This book starts with an overview of the YARN features and explains how YARN provides a business solution for growing big data needs. You will learn to provision and manage single, as well as multi-node, Hadoop-YARN clusters in the easiest way. You will walk through the YARN administration, life cycle management, application execution, REST APIs, schedulers, security framework and so on. You will gain insights about the YARN components and features such as ResourceManager, NodeManager, ApplicationMaster, Container, Timeline Server, High Availability, Resource Localisation and so on. The book explains Hadoop-YARN commands and the configurations of components and explores topics such as High Availability, Resource Localization and Log aggregation. You will then be ready to develop your own ApplicationMaster and execute it over a Hadoop-YARN cluster. Towards the end of the book, you will learn about the security architecture and integration of YARN with big data technologies like Spark and Storm. This book promises conceptual as well as practical knowledge of resource management using YARN.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning YARN
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with ACLs


In the previous section, we covered a basic overview of ACLs and how to enable ACLs in a Hadoop-YARN cluster. In this section, we'll discuss in depth the implementation of ACLs and the different types of ACLs available for YARN.

Defining an ACL value

ACLs define the authorization rules for an object in a YARN. A cluster administrator can specify a list of users and groups authorized to access the object. It is a comma-separated list of both users and groups. These two lists (users and groups) are separated by a space:

  • user1,user2,user3 group1: The above ACL value specifies that user1, user2, user3 and other users belonging to group1 are authorized to access the object

  • user1,user2: If you want to authorize only a specific list of users and do not want any group to access the object, then you can define a list of users with a space at the end

  • group1,group2: Similarly, if you wish to authorize a list of users belonging to specified groups and no other user to access the object...