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Andrew Kyle Purtell commented on HBASE-18095:
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One objective of this work is to remove dependencies on ZK in the client for
the normal client cases. That objective is defeated if there is a fallback. It
would have to be optional. Now we have an optional fallback for an optional
choice to remove dependencies on ZK that reintroduces a dependency on ZK? I
don’t believe it provides much value anyway. It’s the same situation as if all
your ZK quorum goes down. Someone or something (like an autoscaler or process
supervisor) will have to start new instances in either case.
> Provide an option for clients to find the server hosting META that does not
> involve the ZooKeeper client
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> Key: HBASE-18095
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-18095
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Client
> Reporter: Andrew Kyle Purtell
> Assignee: Bharath Vissapragada
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 2.3.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-18095.master-v1.patch, HBASE-18095.master-v2.patch
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> Clients are required to connect to ZooKeeper to find the location of the
> regionserver hosting the meta table region. Site configuration provides the
> client a list of ZK quorum peers and the client uses an embedded ZK client to
> query meta location. Timeouts and retry behavior of this embedded ZK client
> are managed orthogonally to HBase layer settings and in some cases the ZK
> cannot manage what in theory the HBase client can, i.e. fail fast upon outage
> or network partition.
> We should consider new configuration settings that provide a list of
> well-known master and backup master locations, and with this information the
> client can contact any of the master processes directly. Any master in either
> active or passive state will track meta location and respond to requests for
> it with its cached last known location. If this location is stale, the client
> can ask again with a flag set that requests the master refresh its location
> cache and return the up-to-date location. Every client interaction with the
> cluster thus uses only HBase RPC as transport, with appropriate settings
> applied to the connection. The configuration toggle that enables this
> alternative meta location lookup should be false by default.
> This removes the requirement that HBase clients embed the ZK client and
> contact the ZK service directly at the beginning of the connection lifecycle.
> This has several benefits. ZK service need not be exposed to clients, and
> their potential abuse, yet no benefit ZK provides the HBase server cluster is
> compromised. Normalizing HBase client and ZK client timeout settings and
> retry behavior - in some cases, impossible, i.e. for fail-fast - is no longer
> necessary.
> And, from [~ghelmling]: There is an additional complication here for
> token-based authentication. When a delegation token is used for SASL
> authentication, the client uses the cluster ID obtained from Zookeeper to
> select the token identifier to use. So there would also need to be some
> Zookeeper-less, unauthenticated way to obtain the cluster ID as well.
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