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nifi git commit: NIFI-3721 Added documentation for Encrypted
Provenance Repositories to Admin Guide and User Guide. Added screenshot of
encrypted provenance repository contents on disk. Added note about clearing
existing provenance repository when switch
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NIFI-3721 Added documentation for Encrypted Provenance Repositories to Admin Guide and User Guide.
Added screenshot of encrypted provenance repository contents on disk.
Added note about clearing existing provenance repository when switching to encrypted implementation (see PR 1686 @ https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1686#issuecomment-298432578).
This closes #1713.
Signed-off-by: Andy LoPresto <al...@apache.org>
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Author: Andy LoPresto <al...@apache.org>
Authored: Thu Apr 27 16:06:57 2017 -0700
Committer: Andy LoPresto <al...@apache.org>
Committed: Mon May 1 17:19:25 2017 -0400
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@@ -2102,28 +2102,29 @@ this property specifies the maximum amount of time to keep the archived data. It
=== Provenance Repository
-The Provenance Repository contains the information related to Data Provenance. The next three sections are for Provenance Repository properties.
+The Provenance Repository contains the information related to Data Provenance. The next four sections are for Provenance Repository properties.
|====
|*Property*|*Description*
-|nifi.provenance.repository.implementation|The Provenance Repository implementation. The default value is org.apache.nifi.provenance.PersistentProvenanceRepository.
+|nifi.provenance.repository.implementation|The Provenance Repository implementation. The default value is `org.apache.nifi.provenance.PersistentProvenanceRepository`.
Two additional repositories are available as well.
To store provenance events in memory instead of on disk (in which case all events will be lost on restart, and events will be evicted in a first-in-first-out order),
-set this property to org.apache.nifi.provenance.VolatileProvenanceRepository. This leaves a configurable number of Provenance Events in the Java heap, so the number
+set this property to `org.apache.nifi.provenance.VolatileProvenanceRepository`. This leaves a configurable number of Provenance Events in the Java heap, so the number
of events that can be retained is very limited.
-As of Apache NiFi 1.2.0, a third option is available: org.apache.nifi.provenance.WriteAheadProvenanceRepository.
-This implementation was created to replace the PersistentProvenanceRepository. The PersistentProvenanceRepository was originally written with the simple goal of persisting
+As of Apache NiFi 1.2.0, a third and fourth option are available: `org.apache.nifi.provenance.WriteAheadProvenanceRepository` and `org.apache.nifi.provenance.EncryptedWriteAheadProvenanceRepository`.
+This implementation was created to replace the `PersistentProvenanceRepository`. The `PersistentProvenanceRepository` was originally written with the simple goal of persisting
Provenance Events as they are generated and providing the ability to iterate over those events sequentially. Later, it was desired to be able to compress the data so that
more data could be stored. After that, the ability to index and query the data was added. As requirements evolved over time, the repository kept changing without any major
-redesigns. When used in a NiFi instance that is responsible for processing large volumes of small FlowFiles, the PersistentProvenanceRepository can quickly become a bottleneck.
-The WriteAheadProvenanceRepository was then written to provide the same capabilities as the PersistentProvenanceRepository while providing far better performance.
-Changing to the WriteAheadProvenanceRepository is easy to accomplish, as the two repositories support most of the same properties.
-*Note Well*, however, the follow caveat: The WriteAheadProvenanceRepository will make use of the Provenance data stored by the PersistentProvenanceRepository. However, the
-PersistentProvenanceRepository may not be able to read the data written by the WriteAheadProvenanceRepository. Therefore, once the Provenance Repository is changed to use
-the WriteAheadProvenanceRepository, it cannot be changed back to the PersistentProvenanceRepository without deleting the data in the Provenance Repository. It is therefore
+redesigns. When used in a NiFi instance that is responsible for processing large volumes of small FlowFiles, the `PersistentProvenanceRepository` can quickly become a bottleneck.
+The `WriteAheadProvenanceRepository` was then written to provide the same capabilities as the `PersistentProvenanceRepository` while providing far better performance.
+Changing to the `WriteAheadProvenanceRepository` is easy to accomplish, as the two repositories support most of the same properties.
+
+*Note Well*, however, the following caveat: The `WriteAheadProvenanceRepository` will make use of the Provenance data stored by the `PersistentProvenanceRepository`. However, the
+`PersistentProvenanceRepository` may not be able to read the data written by the `WriteAheadProvenanceRepository`. Therefore, once the Provenance Repository is changed to use
+the `WriteAheadProvenanceRepository`, it cannot be changed back to the `PersistentProvenanceRepository` without deleting the data in the Provenance Repository. It is therefore
recommended that before changing the implementation, users ensure that their version of NiFi is stable, in case any issue arises that causes the user to need to roll back to
-a previous version of NiFi that did not support the WriteAheadProvenanceRepository. It is for this reason that the default is still set to the PersistentProvenanceRepository
+a previous version of NiFi that did not support the `WriteAheadProvenanceRepository`. It is for this reason that the default is still set to the `PersistentProvenanceRepository`
at this time.
|====
@@ -2229,6 +2230,32 @@ Providing three total locations, including _nifi.provenance.repository.director
are not fully utilized, this feature can result in far faster Provenance queries.
|====
+[[encrypted-write-ahead-provenance-repository-properties]]
+=== Encrypted Write Ahead Provenance Repository Properties
+
+All of the properties defined above (see <<write-ahead-provenance-repository-properties,Write Ahead Repository Properties>>) still apply. Only encryption-specific properties are listed here. See <<user-guide.adoc#encrypted-provenance,Encrypted Provenance Repository in the User Guide>> for more information.
+
+|====
+|*Property*|*Description*
+|nifi.provenance.repository.debug.frequency|Controls the number of events processed between DEBUG statements documenting the performance metrics of the repository. This value is only used when DEBUG level statements are enabled in the log configuration.
+ |nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.provider.implementation|This is the fully-qualified class name of the **key provider**. A key provider is the datastore interface for accessing the encryption key to protect the provenance events. There are currently two implementations -- `StaticKeyProvider` which reads a key directly from `nifi.properties`, and `FileBasedKeyProvider` which reads *n* many keys from an encrypted file. The interface is extensible, and HSM-backed or other providers are expected in the future.
+ |nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.provider.location|The path to the key definition resource (empty for `StaticKeyProvider`, `./keys.nkp` or similar path for `FileBasedKeyProvider`). For future providers like an HSM, this may be a connection string or URL.
+ |nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.id|The active key ID to use for encryption (e.g. `Key1`).
+ |nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key|The key to use for `StaticKeyProvider`. The key format is hex-encoded (`0123456789ABCDEFFEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEFFEDCBA9876543210`) but can also be encrypted using the <<encrypt-config_tool,`./encrypt-config.sh`>> tool in NiFi Toolkit.
+ |nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.id.*|Allows for additional keys to be specified for the `StaticKeyProvider`. For example, the line `nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.id.Key2=012...210` would provide an available key `Key2`.
+|====
+
+The simplest configuration is below:
+
+....
+nifi.provenance.repository.implementation=org.apache.nifi.provenance.EncryptedWriteAheadProvenanceRepository
+nifi.provenance.repository.debug.frequency=100
+nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.provider.implementation=org.apache.nifi.provenance.StaticKeyProvider
+nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.provider.location=
+nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.id=Key1
+nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key=0123456789ABCDEFFEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEFFEDCBA9876543210
+....
+
=== Component Status Repository
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@@ -1808,6 +1808,77 @@ Once "Expand" is selected, the graph is re-drawn to show the children and their
image:expanded-events.png["Expanded Events"]
+[[encrypted-provenance]]
+=== Encrypted Provenance Repository
+While OS-level access control can offer some security over the provenance data written to the disk in a repository, there are scenarios where the data may be sensitive, compliance and regulatory requirements exist, or NiFi is running on hardware not under the direct control of the organization (cloud, etc.). In this case, the provenance repository allows for all data to be encrypted before being persisted to the disk.
+
+[WARNING]
+.Performance
+============
+The current implementation of the encrypted provenance repository intercepts the record writer and reader of `WriteAheadProvenanceRepository`, which offers significant performance improvements over the legacy `PersistentProvenanceRepository` and uses the `AES/GCM` algorithm, which is fairly performant on commodity hardware. In most scenarios, the added cost will not be significant (unnoticable on a flow with hundreds of provenance events per second, moderately noticable on a flow with thousands - tens of thousands of events per second). However, administrators should perform their own risk assessment and performance analysis and decide how to move forward. Switching back and forth between encrypted/unencrypted implementations is not recommended at this time.
+============
+
+==== What is it?
+
+The `EncryptedWriteAheadProvenanceRepository` is a new implementation of the provenance repository which encrypts all event record information before it is written to the repository. This allows for storage on systems where OS-level access controls are not sufficient to protect the data while still allowing querying and access to the data through the NiFi UI/API.
+
+==== How does it work?
+
+The `WriteAheadProvenanceRepository` was introduced in NiFi 1.2.0 and provided a refactored and much faster provenance repository implementation than the previous `PersistentProvenanceRepository`. The encrypted version wraps that implementation with a record writer and reader which encrypt and decrypt the serialized bytes respectively.
+
+The fully qualified class `org.apache.nifi.provenance.EncryptedWriteAheadProvenanceRepository` is specified as the provenance repository implementation in `nifi.properties` as the value of `nifi.provenance.repository.implementation`. In addition, <<administration-guide.adoc#encrypted-write-ahead-provenance-repository-properties,new properties>> must be populated to allow successful initialization.
+
+===== StaticKeyProvider
+The `StaticKeyProvider` implementation defines keys directly in `nifi.properties`. Individual keys are provided in hexadecimal encoding. The keys can also be encrypted like any other sensitive property in `nifi.properties` using the <<administration-guide.adoc#encrypt-config_tool,`./encrypt-config.sh`>> tool in the NiFi Toolkit.
+
+The following configuration section would result in a key provider with two available keys, "Key1" (active) and "AnotherKey".
+....
+nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.provider.implementation=org.apache.nifi.provenance.StaticKeyProvider
+nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.id=Key1
+nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key=0123456789ABCDEFFEDCBA98765432100123456789ABCDEFFEDCBA9876543210
+nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.id.AnotherKey=0101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101
+....
+
+===== FileBasedKeyProvider
+The `FileBasedKeyProvider` implementation reads from an encrypted definition file of the format:
+
+....
+key1=NGCpDpxBZNN0DBodz0p1SDbTjC2FG5kp1pCmdUKJlxxtcMSo6GC4fMlTyy1mPeKOxzLut3DRX+51j6PCO5SznA==
+key2=GYxPbMMDbnraXs09eGJudAM5jTvVYp05XtImkAg4JY4rIbmHOiVUUI6OeOf7ZW+hH42jtPgNW9pSkkQ9HWY/vQ==
+key3=SFe11xuz7J89Y/IQ7YbJPOL0/YKZRFL/VUxJgEHxxlXpd/8ELA7wwN59K1KTr3BURCcFP5YGmwrSKfr4OE4Vlg==
+key4=kZprfcTSTH69UuOU3jMkZfrtiVR/eqWmmbdku3bQcUJ/+UToecNB5lzOVEMBChyEXppyXXC35Wa6GEXFK6PMKw==
+key5=c6FzfnKm7UR7xqI2NFpZ+fEKBfSU7+1NvRw+XWQ9U39MONWqk5gvoyOCdFR1kUgeg46jrN5dGXk13sRqE0GETQ==
+....
+
+Each line defines a key ID and then the Base64-encoded cipher text of a 16 byte IV and wrapped AES-128, AES-192, or AES-256 key depending on the JCE policies available. The individual keys are wrapped by AES/GCM encryption using the **master key** defined by `nifi.bootstrap.sensitive.key` in `conf/bootstrap.conf`.
+
+===== Key Rotation
+Simply update `nifi.properties` to reference a new key ID in `nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.id`. Previously-encrypted events can still be decrypted as long as that key is still available in the key definition file or `nifi.provenance.repository.encryption.key.id.<OldKeyID>` as the key ID is serialized alongside the encrypted record.
+
+==== Writing and Reading Event Records
+Once the repository is initialized, all provenance event record write operations are serialized according to the configured schema writer (`EventIdFirstSchemaRecordWriter` by default for `WriteAheadProvenanceRepository`) to a `byte[]`. Those bytes are then encrypted using an implementation of `ProvenanceEventEncryptor` (the only current implementation is `AES/GCM/NoPadding`) and the encryption metadata (`keyId`, `algorithm`, `version`, `IV`) is serialized and prepended. The complete `byte[]` is then written to the repository on disk as normal.
+
+image:encrypted-wapr-hex.png["Encrypted provenance repository file on disk"]
+
+On record read, the process is reversed. The encryption metadata is parsed and used to decrypt the serialized bytes, which are then deserialized into a `ProvenanceEventRecord` object. The delegation to the normal schema record writer/reader allows for "random-access" (i.e. immediate seek without decryption of unnecessary records).
+
+Within the NiFi UI/API, there is no detectable difference between an encrypted and unencrypted provenance repository. The Provenance Query operations work as expected with no change to the process.
+
+==== Potential Issues
+
+[WARNING]
+.Switching Implementations
+============
+When switching between implementation "families" (i.e. `VolatileProvenanceRepository` or `PersistentProvenanceRepository` to `EncryptedWriteAheadProvenanceRepository`), the existing repository must be cleared from the file system before starting NiFi. A terminal command like `localhost:$NIFI_HOME $ rm -rf provenance_repository/` is sufficient.
+============
+
+* Switching between unencrypted and encrypted repositories
+** If a user has an existing repository (`WriteAheadProvenanceRepository` only -- **not** `PersistentProvenanceRepository`) that is not encrypted and switches their configuration to use an encrypted repository, the application writes an error to the log but starts up. However, previous events are not accessible through the provenance query interface and new events will overwrite the existing events. The same behavior occurs if a user switches from an encrypted repository to an unencrypted repository. Automatic roll-over is a future effort (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-3722[NIFI-3722]) but NiFi is not intended for long-term storage of provenance events so the impact should be minimal. There are two scenarios for roll-over:
+*** Encrypted -> unencrypted -- if the previous repository implementation was encrypted, these events should be handled seamlessly as long as the key provider available still has the keys used to encrypt the events (see **Key Rotation**)
+*** Unencrypted -> encrypted -- if the previous repository implementation was unencrypted, these events should be handled seamlessly as the previously recorded events simply need to be read with a plaintext schema record reader and then written back with the encrypted record writer
+** There is also a future effort to provide a standalone tool in NiFi Toolkit to encrypt/decrypt an existing provenance repository to make the transition easier. The translation process could take a long time depending on the size of the existing repository, and being able to perform this task outside of application startup would be valuable (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-3723[NIFI-3723]).
+* Multiple repositories -- No additional effort or testing has been applied to multiple repositories at this time. It is possible/likely issues will occur with repositories on different physical devices. There is no option to provide a heterogenous environment (i.e. one encrypted, one plaintext repository).
+* Corruption -- when a disk is filled or corrupted, there have been reported issues with the repository becoming corrupted and recovery steps are necessary. This is likely to continue to be an issue with the encrypted repository, although still limited in scope to individual records (i.e. an entire repository file won't be irrecoverable due to the encryption).
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