Nikita Pande created AMBARI-26526:
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Summary: HBase RSGroups Management View
Key: AMBARI-26526
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-26526
Project: Ambari
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Nikita Pande
Assignee: Nikita Pande
*Problem Statement:*
While Apache HBase provides robust multitenancy features—such as region server
grouping, namespaces, and quotas—these capabilities are primarily accessible
through command-line interfaces and Java-based APIs. This reliance on technical
tools creates significant barriers for administrators who may lack in-depth
HBase or programming expertise. As a result, essential operational tasks such
as tenant provisioning, resource allocation, and quota management become
complex, time-consuming, and prone to error.
The absence of an intuitive, user-friendly interface prevents less-technical
administrators from efficiently managing HBase environments and increases the
risk of misconfiguration or inconsistent policy enforcement. This complexity
also hinders rapid onboarding of new tenants and slows down troubleshooting and
day-to-day operations.
To address these challenges, there is a need for comprehensive UI
capabilities—such as those enabled by Ambari Views—that can abstract the
underlying complexity of HBase administration. By providing a graphical
management interface, administrators can more easily perform critical
multitenancy operations, ensure consistency, and reduce operational overhead,
thereby making HBase more accessible and manageable for organizations of all
sizes.
While Apache HBase provides a comprehensive set of features to support
enterprise requirements—including multitenancy through region server grouping,
namespaces, and quotas, as well as critical data management functions like
snapshots and backups—access to these features is largely limited to
command-line tools and Java APIs. This technical barrier creates significant
challenges for administrators who may not possess deep HBase or programming
expertise.
As a result, routine operational tasks—such as tenant onboarding, resource
allocation, quota enforcement, snapshot creation, and backup management—are
often complex, time-consuming, and prone to human error. The lack of a unified,
intuitive graphical interface also increases the risk of misconfiguration,
slows down troubleshooting.
To address these challenges and democratize HBase administration, there is a
clear need for enhanced UI capabilities, such as those provided by Ambari
Views. By extending the UI to support not only multitenancy management but also
snapshot and backup operations, administrators of varying skill levels can more
easily and reliably perform essential tasks. This will help reduce operational
overhead, improve data reliability, and ensure consistent policy
enforcement—ultimately making HBase more accessible, secure, and manageable for
organizations of all sizes.
h3. Impact on Operations
These challenges result in administrators spending excessive time on routine
and critical data management tasks, encountering a higher risk of configuration
errors, and having difficulty troubleshooting issues or ensuring consistent
policy enforcement. The absence of a unified, intuitive interface not only
complicates tenant onboarding and resource allocation, but also makes
operations like snapshot creation and backup management error-prone and
difficult to audit.
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h3. Proposal: Ambari View for HBase Multi-Tenancy, Snapshot, and Backup
Management
To simplify and streamline HBase administration, we propose implementing a
dedicated Ambari View for HBase RSGroup, tenant, snapshot, and backup
management. By enabling these key operations through an intuitive UI,
administrators can easily onboard tenants, allocate resources, manage snapshots
and backups, and track changes—without needing to master the technical details
of region server groups, namespaces, quotas, or data protection operations.
This enhancement will provide a user-friendly interface that abstracts the
complexity of HBase internals. For example, onboarding a new tenant through the
UI would automatically handle namespace creation, user setup, quota assignment,
and resource allocation. Similarly, creating a snapshot or scheduling a backup
can be accomplished with simple guided workflows. Administrators will no longer
need in-depth knowledge of HBase commands or architecture to perform tasks
accurately, reliably, and efficiently.
Ambari’s extensible 'views' feature allows for the development of such
dedicated interfaces without altering core HBase or Ambari functionality,
ensuring seamless integration and maintainability.
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h3. Key Operations of the Proposed HBase View Page
*RSGroups Overview:*
Administrators will have a graphical overview of all RSGroups, including server
distribution, table and namespace assignments. This visualization allows for
rapid identification of imbalances or misconfigurations.
*Simplified Tenant, Snapshot, and Backup Management:*
The UI will guide administrators step-by-step through creating, modifying, and
deleting RSGroups, adding or removing servers, assigning tables and namespaces,
and managing quotas. Onboarding a new tenant becomes a single workflow that
automates namespace creation, user onboarding, and resource allocation.
Snapshots and backups can be created, scheduled, and restored via intuitive
wizards, improving data protection and recovery processes.
*Quota, Namespace, and User Management:*
Administrators can manage quotas, namespaces, and users directly from the UI,
ensuring consistent enforcement of organizational policies and simplifying
day-to-day management.
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h3. Implementation Details
The new view will be introduced as a project under {{contrib/views}} in Ambari.
Key steps include:
* Defining the view with all necessary metadata.
* Creating APIs for all required HBase RSGroup, snapshot, backup, quota, and
user management operations.
* Implementing REST endpoints to interact with HBase and related systems.
* Building a React-based UI to provide a modern, responsive user experience.
* Ensuring UI consistency with Ambari’s design language and offering visual
workflows for all core operations.
A proof-of-concept for RSGroup management using Ambari View has already been
developed, demonstrating technical feasibility and the value of this approach
by our team ([~anchalk1] , [~nikitapande] ). Thanks to [~nihaljain.cs]
[[email protected]] [~brahma] for guiding the team and providing
valuable inputs.
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h3. Future Scope
Beyond RSGroup and tenant management, this feature is designed for
extensibility. It can be expanded to provide comprehensive UI-driven management
for HBase snapshots, backups, quotas, namespaces, and user administration,
empowering organizations to manage their HBase environments more efficiently,
securely, and reliably.
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