Re: [DISCUSS] Planning for Apache Knox 1.4

[Phil Zampino <pz...@apache.org>]

I think the proposed themes are appropriate.

CM-based service discovery is partially there already, and need only be
fleshed out for completeness and tested.
We've wanted to provide much of the Knox CLI functionality through
KnoxShell (so it could be accessed remotely) for quite some time now.

+1

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:53 AM larry mccay <lm...@apache.org> wrote:

> Folks -
>
> Out last release with end of July, I apologize for the delay in starting
> the planning thread for 1.4.
>
> We currently have a backlog of ~65 JIRAs slated for a Fix Version of 1.4.
>
> There has been some work going on within KnoxShell to provide a general
> purpose representation for tabular data. This will be leveraged for
> rendering SQL query results as well as CSV files and simple processing
> within KnoxShell. I will be writing up a KIP to represent the overall
> vision for this work and initial set of usecases.
>
> We also have Cloudera Manager based discovery emerging and we should target
> an initial set of services to enable for CM/CDH and CDP deployments where
> CM is available.
>
> With the continued increase in cloud based deployments and Knox Gateway use
> in securely accessing the exposed resources, we will concentrate on
> KnoxShell as a first class environment for this access. This will likely
> include an API for discovering metadata about the resources exposed through
> Knox, the required authentication mechanisms, resource types and public
> certs. It will also include Custom GroovyShell Commands for the KnoxShell
> environment to help interact with the remote clusters and resultsets as
> local in-memory tables. I will be start a KIP to try and articulate this
> vision and related 1.4. usecases as well.
>
> I propose that the CM based Service Discovery and KnoxShell access to
> remote clusters be the primary themes of the Apache Knox 1.4 release.
>
> I also propose that we target the end of November as the release date for
> 1.4.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --larry
>