Pentaho and CDP security

Note: If you are also using Knox as a gateway security tool, see Use Knox to access CDP for details.

The following systems are supported for Kerberos and Knox when using Pentaho with a secured CDP cluster:

System	Kerberos	Knox
HDFS	Supported	Supported
Avro	Supported	Supported
OFC	Supported	Not supported
Parquet	Supported	Not supported
YARN	Supported	Not supported
YARN-based Pentaho MapReduce (PMR)	Supported*	Not supported
Sqoop	Supported	Not supported
Hive	Supported	Supported
YARN-based HBase	Supported	Supported
YARN-based Hadoop job executor	Supported	Not supported
Oozie	Not supported	Supported
Impala	Supported	Supported
Spark submit	Supported	Not supported
* You must have enough permission to write to the /opt directory in the HDFS root directory to run Pentaho MapReduce in the CDP Public cloud with Kerberos.

Note: Per CDP support, all cluster nodes must be deployed on CentOS, which cannot be customized.