Permitting airflow kerberos to run in different modes

airflow/cli/cli_config.py

@@ -561,6 +561,9 @@ def string_lower_type(val):
 # kerberos
 ARG_PRINCIPAL = Arg(("principal",), help="kerberos principal", nargs="?")
 ARG_KEYTAB = Arg(("-k", "--keytab"), help="keytab", nargs="?", default=conf.get("kerberos", "keytab"))
+ARG_KERBEROS_ONE_TIME_MODE = Arg(
+    ("-o", "--one-time"), help="Run airflow kerberos one time instead of forever", action="store_true"
+)
 # run
 ARG_INTERACTIVE = Arg(
     ("-N", "--interactive"),
@@ -1889,6 +1892,7 @@ class GroupCommand(NamedTuple):
             ARG_KEYTAB,
             ARG_PID,
             ARG_DAEMON,
+            ARG_KERBEROS_ONE_TIME_MODE,
             ARG_STDOUT,
             ARG_STDERR,
             ARG_LOG_FILE,

airflow/cli/commands/kerberos_command.py

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 from airflow import settings
 from airflow.cli.commands.daemon_utils import run_command_with_daemon_option
 from airflow.security import kerberos as krb
+from airflow.security.kerberos import KerberosMode
 from airflow.utils import cli as cli_utils
 from airflow.utils.providers_configuration_loader import providers_configuration_loaded
 
@@ -30,8 +31,12 @@ def kerberos(args):
     """Start a kerberos ticket renewer."""
     print(settings.HEADER)
 
+    mode = KerberosMode.STANDARD
+    if args.one_time:
+        mode = KerberosMode.ONE_TIME
+
     run_command_with_daemon_option(
         args=args,
         process_name="kerberos",
-        callback=lambda: krb.run(principal=args.principal, keytab=args.keytab),
+        callback=lambda: krb.run(principal=args.principal, keytab=args.keytab, mode=mode),
     )

airflow/security/kerberos.py

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 # under the License.
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from enum import Enum
+
 # Licensed to Cloudera, Inc. under one
 # or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 # distributed with this work for additional information
@@ -47,6 +49,17 @@
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
+class KerberosMode(Enum):
+    """
+    Defines modes for running airflow kerberos.
+
+    :return: None.
+    """
+
+    STANDARD = "standard"
+    ONE_TIME = "one-time"
+
+
 def get_kerberos_principle(principal: str | None) -> str:
     """Retrieve Kerberos principal. Fallback to principal from Airflow configuration if not provided."""
     return principal or conf.get_mandatory_value("kerberos", "principal").replace("_HOST", get_hostname())
@@ -176,18 +189,24 @@ def detect_conf_var() -> bool:
         return b"X-CACHECONF:" in file.read()
 
 
-def run(principal: str | None, keytab: str):
+def run(principal: str | None, keytab: str, mode: KerberosMode = KerberosMode.STANDARD):
     """
     Run the kerberos renewer.
 
     :param principal: principal name
     :param keytab: keytab file
+    :param mode: mode to run the airflow kerberos in
     :return: None
     """
     if not keytab:
         log.warning("Keytab renewer not starting, no keytab configured")
         sys.exit(0)
 
-    while True:
+    log.info("Using airflow kerberos with mode: %s", mode.value)
+
+    if mode == KerberosMode.STANDARD:
+        while True:
+            renew_from_kt(principal, keytab)
+            time.sleep(conf.getint("kerberos", "reinit_frequency"))
+    elif mode == KerberosMode.ONE_TIME:
         renew_from_kt(principal, keytab)
-        time.sleep(conf.getint("kerberos", "reinit_frequency"))

docs/apache-airflow/security/kerberos.rst

@@ -100,6 +100,29 @@ Launch the ticket renewer by
     # run ticket renewer
     airflow kerberos
 
+To support more advanced deployment models for using kerberos in standard or one-time fashion,
+you can specify the mode while running the ``airflow kerberos`` by using the ``--one-time`` flag.
+
+* standard: The airflow kerberos command will run endlessly. The ticket renewer process runs continuously every few seconds
+and refreshes the ticket if it has expired.
+* one-time: The airflow kerberos will run once and exit. In case of failure the main task won't spin up.
+
+The default mode is standard.
+
+Example usages:
+
+For standard mode:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    airflow kerberos
+
+For one time mode:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    airflow kerberos --one-time
+
 Hadoop
 ^^^^^^
 

tests/cli/commands/test_kerberos_command.py

@@ -100,3 +100,21 @@ def test_run_command_daemon(self, mock_krb, mock_daemon, mock_setup_locations, m
             mock.call().__exit__(None, None, None),
             mock.call().__exit__(None, None, None),
         ]
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.cli.commands.kerberos_command.krb")
+    @conf_vars({("core", "executor"): "CeleryExecutor"})
+    def test_run_command_with_mode_one_time(self, mock_krb):
+        args = self.parser.parse_args(
+            ["kerberos", "PRINCIPAL", "--keytab", "/tmp/airflow.keytab", "--one-time"]
+        )
+
+        kerberos_command.kerberos(args)
+        mock_krb.run.assert_called_once_with(keytab="/tmp/airflow.keytab", principal="PRINCIPAL")
+
+    @mock.patch("airflow.cli.commands.kerberos_command.krb")
+    @conf_vars({("core", "executor"): "CeleryExecutor"})
+    def test_run_command_with_mode_standard(self, mock_krb):
+        args = self.parser.parse_args(["kerberos", "PRINCIPAL", "--keytab", "/tmp/airflow.keytab"])
+
+        kerberos_command.kerberos(args)
+        mock_krb.run.assert_called_once_with(keytab="/tmp/airflow.keytab", principal="PRINCIPAL")