--- title: "Kerberizing Hadoop Clusters at Twitter" url: https://daily.dev/posts/kerberizing-hadoop-clusters-at-twitter-ct4rcmjik source_url: https://blog.x.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2023/kerberizing-hadoop-clusters-at-twitter type: article source: "Twitter Engineering" published: 2024-02-14T00:11:09.726Z updated: 2024-05-09T09:28:18.744Z tags: ["authentication", "big-data", "authorization", "apache-hadoop", "kerberos"] reading_time: 10 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Kerberizing Hadoop Clusters at Twitter **[Twitter Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/twitter)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Twitter faced challenges in kerberizing their Hadoop clusters, but they were able to enforce strong Authentication, Authorization, and Accountability for Hadoop data access by making code changes, developing keytab generation and distribution services, and implementing delegation token renewal. They took a multi-pronged approach to kerberizing their clusters one at a time, with minimal disruption to customer use cases. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#big-data](https://daily.dev/tags/big-data), [#authorization](https://daily.dev/tags/authorization), [#apache-hadoop](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-hadoop), [#kerberos](https://daily.dev/tags/kerberos) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/kerberizing-hadoop-clusters-at-twitter-ct4rcmjik)