The following screenshot shows the user interface in Ranger which is used to add services. We will add Kafka service here to configure policies for it later:
Let's look into the Service Details :
- Service name: The service name needs to be set up in agent config. For example, in this case, it can be Kafka
- Description: This represents what this service will do
- Active Status: This refers to enabling or disabling this service
Config properties :
- Username: This will be used to connect to this service. In case of Kafka, this is a principal who has access to defined resources to configure security.
- Password: This ...