Configure Flume to Use Kerberos
About this task
Because HBase traffic is secured with Kerberos, you must configure Flume to use Kerberos in order to write sinks to secure HBase using Flume's HBaseSink. Once Kerberos is enabled, the maprlogin ticket generation is performed implicitly. After installing Flume, follow these steps to configure Flume to use Kerberos authentication.
Procedure
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Verify that a keytab file called
flume.keytab
already exists and contains a principal that matches the Kerberos identity of the user that will be running flume-ng. -
Verify that your flume.conf file contains the following
properties: