[SPARK-5342] Allow long running Spark apps to run on secure YARN/HDFS

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: YARN
• Assignee: Hari Shreedharan
• Reporter: Hari Shreedharan
• Created: 21/Jan/15 00:20
• Updated: 08/Nov/19 09:29
• Resolved: 01/May/15 20:33

Description

Currently, Spark apps cannot write to HDFS after the delegation tokens reach their expiry, which maxes out at 7 days. We must find a way to ensure that we can run applications for longer - for example, spark streaming apps are expected to run forever.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: SPARK-3883 Provide SSL support for Akka and HttpServer based connections
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #4688 (harishreedharan)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #5823 (harishreedharan)