Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform. The vision with Ranger is to provide comprehensive security across the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.
Apache Ranger has the following goals:
- Centralized security administration to manage all security related tasks in a central UI or using REST APIs.
- Fine grained authorization to do a specific action and/or operation with Hadoop component/tool and managed through a central administration tool Standardize authorization method across all Hadoop components.
- Enhanced support for different authorization methods - Role based access control, attribute based access control etc.
- Centralize auditing of user access and administrative actions (security related) within all the components of Hadoop.
