Ranger

This page outlines the design and implementation of the S3 integration plugin for Apache Ranger. The Ranger-S3 plugin extends Ranger's authorization capabilities to Amazon S3 resources, enabling centralized access control, audit logging, and policy management for S3 buckets and objects accessed through various big data ecosystem components.

This shall facilitate the Hadoop and data platform teams in managing S3 resource access internally without continuous DevOps support.

What is Ranger?

Apache Ranger is a centralized security framework for managing fine-grained access control and comprehensive auditing across the Hadoop ecosystem. It provides:

• Centralized Policy Management: Single interface to define and manage security policies across multiple Hadoop components
• Fine-grained Authorization: Row-level, column-level, and resource-level access control
• Comprehensive Audit: Centralized audit logging of user access and administrative actions
• Standardized Authorization: Consistent authorization method across Hadoop stack components
• Dynamic Policy Updates: Real-time policy changes without service restarts

Ranger supports authorization for HDFS, Hive, HBase, Kafka, Solr, YARN, Knox, and other ecosystem services through a plugin-based architecture.

For details, access the following pages.

• Why Ranger-S3: Addressing Current Limitations
• Ranger Prerequisites
• Ranger Implementation
• Ranger Limitations