[SPARK-5960] Allow AWS credentials to be passed to KinesisUtils.createStream()

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: DStreams
• Target Version/s: 1.4.0
• Assignee: Chris Fregly
• Reporter: Chris Fregly
• Created: 24/Feb/15 01:52
• Updated: 17/May/15 23:53
• Resolved: 17/May/15 23:53

Description

While IAM roles are preferable, we're seeing a lot of cases where we need to pass AWS credentials when creating the KinesisReceiver.

Notes:

• Make sure we don't log the credentials anywhere
• Maintain compatibility with existing KinesisReceiver-based code.

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-3640 KinesisUtils should accept a credentials object instead of forcing DefaultCredentialsProvider
• is related to: SPARK-6599 Improve usability and reliability of Kinesis stream
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #5439 (mce)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #5882 (cfregly)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #6147 (tdas)