Use Kerberos with Spark Submit

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This article explains how to execute Spark Submit jobs on secure Cloudera Hadoop clusters version 5.7 and later using Kerberos authentication. Spark jobs can be submitted to the secure clusters by adding keytab and principal utility parameter values to the job. These values are what enable Kerberos authentication for Spark.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be completed before running the Spark jobs:

A Spark client must be installed, Refer to the article Spark Submit for information on installing and configuring the Spark client.
The cluster must be secured with Kerberos, and the Kerberos server used by the cluster must be accessible to the Pentaho Server.
The Pentaho computer must have Kerberos installed and configured as explained in Set Up Kerberos for Pentaho.

NoteA valid Kerberos ticket must already be in the ticket cache area on your client machine before you launch and submit the Spark Submit job.

Spark Submit entry properties

Configure your job setup with the parameters in the following table. For additional details, see Spark Submit.

Parameter	Value
Entry Name	Specify the name of the entry. You can customize this, or leave it as the default.
Spark Submit Utility	Specify the name of the script that launches the Spark job, which is the batch/shell file name of the underlying spark-submit tool. For example, `Spark2-submit`.
Master URL	Choose a master URL for the cluster from the drop-down: yarn-cluster: Runs the driver program as a thread of the YARN application master (one of the node managers in the cluster). This option is similar to the way MapReduce works. yarn-client: Runs the driver program on the YARN client. Tasks are still executing in the node managers of the YARN cluster.
Type	Select the file type of the Spark job you want to submit. Your job can be written in Java, Scala, or Python. The fields displayed in the Files tab will depend on what language option you select. Python support on Windows requires Spark version 2.3.x or higher.
Utility Parameters	Specify the Name and Value of optional Spark configuration parameters associated with the spark-defaults.conf file. Add the following name and value pairs: Name: spark.yarn.keytab Value: File path to the spark.yarn.keytab file Name: spark.yarn.principal Value: Kerberos principal used to authenticate to the cluster
Enable Blocking	Select Enable Blocking to have the Spark Submit entry wait until the Spark job finishes running. If this option is not selected, the Spark Submit entry proceeds with its execution once the Spark job is submitted for execution. Blocking is enabled by default.

Authentication via password is not supported.