Installing the Amazon Elastic MapReduce Protector

Setting up the Amazon EMR Protector

The Amazon EMR Protector v10.0.0 is part of the Protegrity Big Data Protector suite, designed to secure sensitive data in distributed processing environments on AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR). This protector enables organizations to run analytics on large-scale datasets while ensuring compliance with stringent data privacy regulations.

The Bootstrap Installer is designed to automate the deployment of the Protegrity Big Data Protector (BDP) components during the creation of an Amazon EMR cluster. By leveraging AWS bootstrap actions, this method ensures that all required libraries, configuration files, and services are installed and configured as part of the cluster initialization process.

The Static Installer provides a manual or scripted approach for installing BDP components on existing EMR clusters. This method is best suited for environments where clusters are persistent or require custom installation steps outside the bootstrap lifecycle.

Prerequisites

Register the jumpbox

To register and prepare the jumpbox, refer to Registering and preparing the jumpbox.

For a detailed information on the prerequistes for the Bootstrap installer, refer to Verifying the prerequisites.

For a detailed information on the prerequistes for the Static installer, refer to Verifying the prerequisites for Static Installer.

Integrating the Amazon EMR Protector with Protegrity Provisioned Cluster (PPC)

To integrate the Amazon EMR Protector with PPC, perform the following steps:

1. Install the EMR protector using the bootstrap installer as per steps mentioned in the section Using the Bootstrap Installer.

OR

2. Install the EMR protector using the static installer as per steps mentioned in the section Using the Static Installer.

Note: When prompted for the ESA IP address, enter the PPC FQDN as configured in Step 4 of Deploying PPC. Ensure the FQDN does not exceed 50 characters. For the ESA listening port, enter 25400. These specific values are required to integrate the protector with the PPC.

Post Configuration Steps

For a detailed information on the post configuration steps, refer to Configuring the Protector.