Apache Atlas Overview

Apache Atlas framework is an extensible set of core foundational governance services – enabling enterprises to effectively and efficiently meet their compliance requirements within Hadoop and allows integration with the whole enterprise data ecosystem.

This will provide true visibility in Hadoop by using both a prescriptive and forensic model, along with technical and operational audit as well as lineage enriched by business taxonomical metadata. It also enables any metadata consumer to work inter-operably without discrete interfaces to each other -- the metadata store is common.

The metadata veracity is maintained by leveraging Apache Ranger to prevent non-authorized access paths to data at runtime. Security is both role based (RBAC) and attribute based (ABAC).

NOTE

Apache Atlas allows contributions via pull requests (PRs) on GitHub. Alternatively, use this to submit changes for review using the Review Board. Also create a atlas jira to go along with the review and mention it in the pull request/review board review.

Building Atlas in Docker

Instructions to build and run atlas in docker: dev-support/atlas-docker/README.md

Regular Build Process

1. Get Atlas sources to your local directory, for example with following commands

   cd <your-local-directory>
   git clone https://github.com/apache/atlas.git
   cd atlas
   
   # Checkout the branch or tag you would like to build
   
   # to checkout a branch
   git checkout <branch>
   
   # to checkout a tag
   git checkout tags/<tag>
   

2. Execute the following commands to build Apache Atlas

   export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms2g -Xmx2g"
   mvn clean install
   mvn clean package -Pdist
   

3. After above build commands successfully complete, you should see the following files

   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-bin.tar.gz
   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-hbase-hook.tar.gz
   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-hive-hook.tar.gz
   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-impala-hook.tar.gz
   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-kafka-hook.tar.gz
   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-server.tar.gz
   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-sources.tar.gz
   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-sqoop-hook.tar.gz
   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-storm-hook.tar.gz
   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-falcon-hook.tar.gz
   distro/target/apache-atlas-<version>-couchbase-hook.tar.gz
   

4. For more details on installing and running Apache Atlas, please refer to https://atlas.apache.org/#/Installation