With the new release of HDP 2.3 comes Ambari 2.1 that brings among other improvements the provisioning and management of Apache Ranger. Ranger together with new agents for a centralized authorization management brings a new KMS key storage for HDFS encryption. HDP components in Ambari can be installed and configured through blueprints that are described in a JSON notation. Continue reading “Installing Ranger with Ambari Blueprints” →