[KUDU-2363] Investigate if we should use ServiceCredentialProvider for Spark integration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: spark
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Hao Hao
• Created: 20/Mar/18 21:55
• Updated: 03/Jun/20 02:34

Description

Spark 2 provides a ServiceCredentialProvider implementation for integration with other service on a secure cluster. Here is a related documentation although lacking in detail.

We should probably investigate if we want to use it to avoid asking users to provide the keytab, since it might not be a good practice.