Goals

1. Allow CDAP users to securely store sensitive data.
2. Allow authorized CDAP users to access stored data at runtime.
3. Allow authorized CDAP users to manage the stored data.

Checklist

• User stories documented (Nishith)
• User stories reviewed (Nitin)
• Design documented (Nishith)
• Design reviewed (Andreas/Terence)
• Feature merged (Nishith)
• Blog post 

User Stories

1. As a CDAP/Hydrator security admin, I want all sensitive information like passwords not be stored in plaintext.

Scenarios

Brief introduction to Hadoop KMS

Hadoop KMS is a cryptographic key management server based on Hadoop’s KeyProvider API.

It provides a client and a server components which communicate over HTTP using REST API.

The client is a KeyProvider implementation which interacts with the KMS using the KMS HTTP REST API.

The KMS is a proxy that interfaces with a backing key store on behalf of HDFS daemons and clients. Both the backing key store and the KMS implement the Hadoop KeyProvider API. A default Java Key store is provided for testing but is not recommended for production use. Cloudera provides Navigator Key Trustee for production clusters. Hortonworks recommends using Ranger KMS.

Design

The entity stored will be composed of three parts

1. Alias: This will be the identifier, provided by the user, that will be used to retrieve the object.
2. Properties: A key value map containing the properties of the object being stored.
3. Data: The data being stored. Passed in as a byte array.

Following Operations will supported by the store

• Store
• Get data
• Get metadata
• List
• Delete

The system will expose APIs to clients

// Represents the meta data about the data
interface SecureStoreMetaData {
  String getName();
  long getLastModifiedTime();
  Map<String, String> getProperties();
}
 
// Represents the secure data
interface SecureStoreData {
  // Returns the meta data about the secure data
  SecureStoreMetaData getMetaData();
 
  // Returns the secure data
  byte[] get();
}
 
// Provides read-only access to secure store
interface SecureStore {
  // Returns a list of available secure data in the secure store.
  List<SecureStoreMetaData> list();
 
  // Gets the secure data
  SecureStoreData get(String name);
}
 
// Manager interface for managing secure data
interface SecureStoreManager {
  // Stores the secure data
  void put(String name, byte[] data, Map<String, String> properties);
 
  // Remove the secure data
  void delete(String name);
}

REST API

Access Control

The cluster has KMS running

If the cluster has KMS running, we will utilize that for securely storing sensitive information. To do that we will implement the Hadoop KeyProvider API and forward user calls to KMS.

The cluster does not have KMS running

This mode will not be supported in this release.

Design Decisions:

1. We will also need to modify the Input class to take Namespaced dataset/streams. This can be achieved in the different ways which are listed below

References