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Version: 0.13.0

LDAP

Certified

Important Capabilities

CapabilityStatusNotes
Detect Deleted EntitiesOptionally enabled via stateful_ingestion.remove_stale_metadata

This plugin extracts the following:

  • People
  • Names, emails, titles, and manager information for each person
  • List of groups

CLI based Ingestion

Install the Plugin

pip install 'acryl-datahub[ldap]'

Starter Recipe

Check out the following recipe to get started with ingestion! See below for full configuration options.

For general pointers on writing and running a recipe, see our main recipe guide.

source:
type: "ldap"
config:
# Coordinates
ldap_server: ldap://localhost

# Credentials
ldap_user: "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=org"
ldap_password: "admin"

# Options
base_dn: "dc=example,dc=org"

sink:
# sink configs

Config Details

Note that a . is used to denote nested fields in the YAML recipe.

FieldDescription
base_dn 
string
LDAP DN.
ldap_password 
string
LDAP password.
ldap_server 
string
LDAP server URL.
ldap_user 
string
LDAP user.
attrs_list
array(string)
custom_props_list
array(string)
drop_missing_first_last_name
boolean
If set to true, any users without first and last names will be dropped.
Default: True
filter
string
LDAP extractor filter.
Default: (objectClass=*)
group_attrs_map
object
Default: {}
manager_filter_enabled
boolean
Use LDAP extractor filter to search managers.
Default: True
manager_pagination_enabled
boolean
[deprecated] Use pagination_enabled
Default: True
page_size
integer
Size of each page to fetch when extracting metadata.
Default: 20
pagination_enabled
boolean
Use pagination while do search query (enabled by default).
Default: True
platform_instance
string
The instance of the platform that all assets produced by this recipe belong to
use_email_as_username
boolean
Use email for users' usernames instead of username (disabled by default). If enabled, the user and group urn would be having email as the id part of the urn.
Default: False
user_attrs_map
object
Default: {}
env
string
The environment that all assets produced by this connector belong to
Default: PROD
stateful_ingestion
StatefulStaleMetadataRemovalConfig
Base specialized config for Stateful Ingestion with stale metadata removal capability.
stateful_ingestion.enabled
boolean
The type of the ingestion state provider registered with datahub.
Default: False
stateful_ingestion.remove_stale_metadata
boolean
Soft-deletes the entities present in the last successful run but missing in the current run with stateful_ingestion enabled.
Default: True

Code Coordinates

  • Class Name: datahub.ingestion.source.ldap.LDAPSource
  • Browse on GitHub

Questions

If you've got any questions on configuring ingestion for LDAP, feel free to ping us on our Slack.