Hadoop Azure Data Lake Support

Introduction

The hadoop-azure-datalake module provides support for integration with the Azure Data Lake Store. This support comes via the JAR file azure-datalake-store.jar.

Features

  • Read and write data stored in an Azure Data Lake Storage account.
  • Reference file system paths using URLs using the adl scheme for Secure Webhdfs i.e. SSL encrypted access.
  • Can act as a source of data in a MapReduce job, or a sink.
  • Tested on both Linux and Windows.
  • Tested for scale.
  • API setOwner(), setAcl, removeAclEntries(), modifyAclEntries() accepts UPN or OID (Object ID) as user and group names.

Limitations

Partial or no support for the following operations :

  • Operation on Symbolic Links
  • Proxy Users
  • File Truncate
  • File Checksum
  • File replication factor
  • Home directory the active user on Hadoop cluster.
  • Extended Attributes(XAttrs) Operations
  • Snapshot Operations
  • Delegation Token Operations
  • User and group information returned as listStatus() and getFileStatus() is in the form of the GUID associated in Azure Active Directory.

Usage

Concepts

Azure Data Lake Storage access path syntax is:

adl://<Account Name>.azuredatalakestore.net/

For details on using the store, see Get started with Azure Data Lake Store using the Azure Portal

OAuth2 Support

Usage of Azure Data Lake Storage requires an OAuth2 bearer token to be present as part of the HTTPS header as per the OAuth2 specification. A valid OAuth2 bearer token must be obtained from the Azure Active Directory service for those valid users who have access to Azure Data Lake Storage Account.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s multi-tenant cloud based directory and identity management service. See What is ActiveDirectory.

Following sections describes theOAuth2 configuration in core-site.xml.

Configuring Credentials and FileSystem

Credentials can be configured using either a refresh token (associated with a user), or a client credential (analogous to a service principal).

Using Refresh Tokens

Add the following properties to the cluster’s core-site.xml

<property>
  <name>fs.adl.oauth2.access.token.provider.type</name>
  <value>RefreshToken</value>
</property>

Applications must set the Client id and OAuth2 refresh token from the Azure Active Directory service associated with the client id. See Active Directory Library For Java.

Do not share client id and refresh token, it must be kept secret.

<property>
  <name>fs.adl.oauth2.client.id</name>
  <value></value>
</property>

<property>
  <name>fs.adl.oauth2.refresh.token</name>
  <value></value>
</property>

Using Client Keys

Generating the Service Principal
  1. Go to the portal
  2. Under “Browse”, look for Active Directory and click on it.
  3. Create “Web Application”. Remember the name you create here - that is what you will add to your ADL account as authorized user.
  4. Go through the wizard
  5. Once app is created, Go to app configuration, and find the section on “keys”
  6. Select a key duration and hit save. Save the generated keys.
  7. Note down the properties you will need to auth:
    • The client ID
    • The key you just generated above
    • The token endpoint (select “View endpoints” at the bottom of the page and copy/paste the OAuth2 .0 Token Endpoint value)
    • Resource: Always https://management.core.windows.net/ , for all customers
Adding the service principal to your ADL Account
  1. Go to the portal again, and open your ADL account
  2. Select Users under Settings
  3. Add your user name you created in Step 6 above (note that it does not show up in the list, but will be found if you searched for the name)
  4. Add “Owner” role
Configure core-site.xml

Add the following properties to your core-site.xml

<property>
  <name>fs.adl.oauth2.access.token.provider.type</name>
  <value>ClientCredential</value>
</property>

<property>
  <name>fs.adl.oauth2.refresh.url</name>
  <value>TOKEN ENDPOINT FROM STEP 7 ABOVE</value>
</property>

<property>
  <name>fs.adl.oauth2.client.id</name>
  <value>CLIENT ID FROM STEP 7 ABOVE</value>
</property>

<property>
  <name>fs.adl.oauth2.credential</name>
  <value>PASSWORD FROM STEP 7 ABOVE</value>
</property>

Protecting the Credentials with Credential Providers

In many Hadoop clusters, the core-site.xml file is world-readable. To protect these credentials, it is recommended that you use the credential provider framework to securely store them and access them.

All ADLS credential properties can be protected by credential providers. For additional reading on the credential provider API, see Credential Provider API.

Provisioning
hadoop credential create fs.adl.oauth2.client.id -value 123
    -provider localjceks://file/home/foo/adls.jceks
hadoop credential create fs.adl.oauth2.refresh.token -value 123
    -provider localjceks://file/home/foo/adls.jceks
Configuring core-site.xml or command line property
<property>
  <name>fs.adl.oauth2.access.token.provider.type</name>
  <value>RefreshToken</value>
</property>
<property>
  <name>hadoop.security.credential.provider.path</name>
  <value>localjceks://file/home/foo/adls.jceks</value>
  <description>Path to interrogate for protected credentials.</description>
</property>
Running DistCp
hadoop distcp
    [-D fs.adl.oauth2.access.token.provider.type=RefreshToken
     -D hadoop.security.credential.provider.path=localjceks://file/home/user/adls.jceks]
    hdfs://<NameNode Hostname>:9001/user/foo/srcDir
    adl://<Account Name>.azuredatalakestore.net/tgtDir/

NOTE: You may optionally add the provider path property to the distcp command line instead of added job specific configuration to a generic core-site.xml. The square brackets above illustrate this capability.`

Accessing adl URLs

After credentials are configured in core-site.xml, any Hadoop component may reference files in that Azure Data Lake Storage account by using URLs of the following format:

adl://<Account Name>.azuredatalakestore.net/<path>

The schemes adl identifies a URL on a Hadoop-compatible file system backed by Azure Data Lake Storage. adl utilizes encrypted HTTPS access for all interaction with the Azure Data Lake Storage API.

For example, the following FileSystem Shell commands demonstrate access to a storage account named youraccount.

hadoop fs -mkdir adl://yourcontainer.azuredatalakestore.net/testDir

hadoop fs -put testFile adl://yourcontainer.azuredatalakestore.net/testDir/testFile

hadoop fs -cat adl://yourcontainer.azuredatalakestore.net/testDir/testFile
test file content

User/Group Representation

The hadoop-azure-datalake module provides support for configuring how User/Group information is represented during getFileStatus(), listStatus(), and getAclStatus() calls..

Add the following properties to core-site.xml

<property>
  <name>adl.feature.ownerandgroup.enableupn</name>
  <value>true</value>
  <description>
    When true : User and Group in FileStatus/AclStatus response is
    represented as user friendly name as per Azure AD profile.

    When false (default) : User and Group in FileStatus/AclStatus
    response is represented by the unique identifier from Azure AD
    profile (Object ID as GUID).

    For performance optimization, Recommended default value.
  </description>
</property>

Testing the azure-datalake-store Module

The hadoop-azure module includes a full suite of unit tests. Most of the tests will run without additional configuration by running mvn test. This includes tests against mocked storage, which is an in-memory emulation of Azure Data Lake Storage.

A selection of tests can run against the Azure Data Lake Storage. To run these tests, please create src/test/resources/auth-keys.xml with Adl account information mentioned in the above sections and the following properties.

<property>
    <name>fs.adl.test.contract.enable</name>
    <value>true</value>
</property>

<property>
    <name>test.fs.adl.name</name>
    <value>adl://yourcontainer.azuredatalakestore.net</value>
</property>