diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 9be950df85c..f81b0991c92 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -269,6 +269,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3834. Scrub debug logging of tokens during resource localization.
     (Chris Nauroth via xgong)
 
+    YARN-3827. Migrate YARN native build to new CMake framework (Alan Burlison
+    via Colin P. McCabe)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     YARN-3339. TestDockerContainerExecutor should pull a single image and not
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/CMakeLists.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/CMakeLists.txt
index f691a9c6fbd..d4d6ae14f65 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,25 +16,24 @@
 
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6 FATAL_ERROR)
 
-set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE, Release)
+list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/../../../../../hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common)
+include(HadoopCommon)
 
-include(../../../../../hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/JNIFlags.cmake NO_POLICY_SCOPE)
+# Note: can't use -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, see MAPREDUCE-4258
+string(REPLACE "-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" "" CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS}")
+string(REPLACE "-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" "" CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
 
 include(CheckFunctionExists)
-CHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS(fcloseall HAVE_FCLOSEALL)
+check_function_exists(fcloseall HAVE_FCLOSEALL)
 
 function(output_directory TGT DIR)
-    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TGT} PROPERTIES
+    set_target_properties(${TGT} PROPERTIES
         RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${DIR}")
-    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TGT} PROPERTIES
+    set_target_properties(${TGT} PROPERTIES
         ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${DIR}")
-    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TGT} PROPERTIES
+    set_target_properties(${TGT} PROPERTIES
         LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${DIR}")
-endfunction(output_directory TGT DIR)
-
-set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -g -Wall -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE")
-# note: can't enable -D_LARGEFILE: see MAPREDUCE-4258
-set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -D_REENTRANT")
+endfunction()
 
 include_directories(
     ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ include_directories(
     main/native/container-executor
     main/native/container-executor/impl
 )
-CONFIGURE_FILE(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/config.h.cmake ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/config.h)
+configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/config.h.cmake ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/config.h)
 
 add_library(container
     main/native/container-executor/impl/configuration.c