What are Environments?
Environments are used to configure infrastructure such as Hadoop clusters, Token Vaults, Privitar On Demand servers, SecureLink or Key Management Systems that is available to specific Teams.
In Privitar, an Environment defines:
The Token Vault connection and authentication details.
The Key Management System connection and authentication details.
The Hadoop Cluster that:
Contains input data and output data in HDFS or Hive
May store Token Vaults in HDFS
Handles the work of anonymization processing
Contains encryption keys in a KMS
Contains user and role information for access control
Provides the catalogue for metadata sharing
Privitar On Demand server settings
SecureLink settings
AWS Glue settings
Please note that not all of the above settings are required or available in all deployments. Which Environments settings are available will depend also on the deployment location. For example, AWS Glue settings will only be available in AWS deployments.
Privitar supports adding multiple Environments. Environments that have been created can be deleted and also shared between Teams.
When a Job is run, the Environment in which the Job runs can be selected. For example, an HDFS path in one Environment may not be valid in another; or a data flow platform may not have access to the configured Token Vault to perform consistent tokenization. It is therefore important to select the correct Environment when using Privitar.