Tag Archives: docker

Powerful _USERs in Apache Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha4

"Super Heroes" (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Olaf Gradin A lot of work has been done to greatly clarify and enhance various environment variables in the Apache Hadoop shell script code. One of those places was in the usage of various _USER environment variables. Prior to 3.0.0-alpha4 In previous releases, the supported variables were: Name Description HADOOP_SECURE_DN_USER User to… Read More »

Docker Security in Framework Managed, Multi-user Environments

A while back, Jessie Frazelle wrote and published an informative blog post on the differences between containers, zones, and jails. Since it touched on security, the blog post reminded me of a conversation that was had last year when a contributor to the Apache Yetus project asked about this blog post about one of the… Read More »