[KNOX-741] Centralize Common Provider Configuration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Server
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Larry McCay
• Created: 21/Aug/16 15:28
• Updated: 07/Nov/18 20:20

Description

At times, multiple topologies require the same provider configuration. This is often LDAP/AD configuration that is painful to redundantly maintain and can lead to inconsistencies and human error.

By centralizing such configuration in specialized topology snippets that can be imported, we can eliminate this pain and provide a much more concise configuration.

This is described in the LDAP improvements KIP-1 wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KNOX/KIP-1+LDAP+Improvements