Simplify authentication with native LDAP integration on Amazon EMR
Big Data Blog
This article explains how to simplify authentication on Amazon EMR by using native LDAP integration. With this feature, users can authenticate to EMR frameworks like Hive, Trino/Presto, and Spark using their corporate LDAP credentials instead of setting up Kerberos authentication.
Specifically, the article covers:
- How the LDAP authentication flow works in EMR
- Finding the required LDAP parameters for configuration
- Testing LDAP connectivity and configurations
- Creating AWS Secrets Manager secrets for LDAP credentials
- Creating an EMR security configuration with LDAP settings
- Launching an EMR cluster with the LDAP security configuration
- Testing authentication on different EMR frameworks like Hive, Trino/Presto, Livy, and Spark
- Connecting to Trino from an external SQL client using LDAP authentication
- Cleanup steps to remove the created resources
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