I got hbase working. The trick was to properly configure the fs.defaultFS and
hbase.rootdir. Other than that hbase does not seem to care about hostname vs
ip address.
Note that I use python to fill my templates, hence the %(hadoop.dfs.master)s
syntax. Here hadoop.dfs.master is an ip address and
The only security is the one provided by the slave/master whitelists (more
dumb proof than attack proof, but still useful to avoid clusters talking to
each other accidentally).
I want to automate the deployment of hadoop clusters through Glu (from
LinkedIn) since we already use it to do single cli
