I am having similar issue We have non Kerberiozed Hadoop Kafka environment . I am testing integrating Ranger Kafak to secure the environment. HDP Version: HDP-2.3.4.0-3485 This is what I did. -- Enables Kafka plugin in Ranger. -- Restarted Ranger -- Create following policies in Ranger ( see the image ) ( Important : Added group Public left policy condition blank ) -- Logged in to server 21 to Produce and consume message's -- I was able to produce and consume messages from any server . What we want is to secure our Kafka environment through ranger by ip address. I understand that the identity of client user over a non-secure channel is not possible. I followed the following article to secure or Kafka environment. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Kafka+Plugin#KafkaPlugin-WhydowehavetospecifypublicusergrouponallpoliciesitemscreatedforauthorizingKafkaaccessovernon-securechannel Please let me know what I am missing. ... View more

I wanted to know couple of things here. 1) Suppose I've few map reduce jobs and they need to be run on the HDI. What I understand from HDI approach, it is for build, run and delete. If I've placed all my jars, oozie jobs, configurations on the cluster and if I delete them today. In future if I want to run the same batch job, do I need to copy all the jars, re configure the oozie jobs? 2) Is it possible to configure Solr run on HDInsights? ... View more

@Sean Roberts Good idea. Let me convert into an article ... View more

Applied this recently as well with MySql 5.5 instance with HA (Tungsten). Haven't seen the issue on 5.6 basic install. ... View more