HBase config settings go missing within Yarn.

[Niels Basjes]

Hi,

Ik have a Flink 1.3.2 application that I want to run on a Hadoop yarn
cluster where I need to connect to HBase.

What I have:

In my environment:
HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/etc/hadoop/conf/
HBASE_CONF_DIR=/etc/hbase/conf/
HIVE_CONF_DIR=/etc/hive/conf/
YARN_CONF_DIR=/etc/hadoop/conf/

In /etc/hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml I have correctly defined the zookeeper
hosts for HBase.

My test code is this:

public class Main {
  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Main.class);

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    printZookeeperConfig();
    final StreamExecutionEnvironment env =
StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment().setParallelism(1);
    env.createInput(new HBaseSource()).print();
    env.execute("HBase config problem");
  }

  public static void printZookeeperConfig() {
    String zookeeper =
HBaseConfiguration.create().get("hbase.zookeeper.quorum");
    LOG.info("----> Loading HBaseConfiguration: Zookeeper = {}", zookeeper);
  }

  public static class HBaseSource extends AbstractTableInputFormat<String> {
    @Override
    public void configure(org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration
parameters) {
      table = createTable();
      if (table != null) {
        scan = getScanner();
      }
    }

    private HTable createTable() {
      LOG.info("Initializing HBaseConfiguration");
      // Uses files found in the classpath
      org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration hConf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
      printZookeeperConfig();

      try {
        return new HTable(hConf, getTableName());
      } catch (Exception e) {
        LOG.error("Error instantiating a new HTable instance", e);
      }
      return null;
    }

    @Override
    public String getTableName() {
      return "bugs:flink";
    }

    @Override
    protected String mapResultToOutType(Result result) {
      return new
String(result.getFamilyMap("v".getBytes(UTF_8)).get("column".getBytes(UTF_8)));
    }

    @Override
    protected Scan getScanner() {
      return new Scan();
    }
  }

}


I run this application with this command on my Yarn cluster (note: first
starting a yarn-cluster and then submitting the job yields the same result).

flink \
    run \
    -m yarn-cluster \
    --yarncontainer 1 \
    --yarnname "Flink on Yarn HBase problem" \
    --yarnslots                     1     \
    --yarnjobManagerMemory          4000  \
    --yarntaskManagerMemory         4000  \
    --yarnstreaming                       \
    target/flink-hbase-connect-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Now in the client side logfile
/usr/local/flink-1.3.2/log/flink--client-80d2d21b10e0.log I see

1) Classpath actually contains /etc/hbase/conf/ both near the start
and at the end.

2) The zookeeper settings of my experimental environent have been
picked up by the software

2017-10-20 11:17:23,973 INFO  com.bol.bugreports.Main
                     - ----> Loading HBaseConfiguration: Zookeeper =
node1.kluster.local.nl.bol.com:2181,node2.kluster.local.nl.bol.com:2181,node3.kluster.local.nl.bol.com:2181


When I open the logfiles on the Hadoop cluster I see this:

2017-10-20 13:17:33,250 INFO  com.bol.bugreports.Main
                     - ----> Loading HBaseConfiguration: Zookeeper =
*localhost*


and as a consequence

2017-10-20 13:17:33,368 INFO  org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn
                     - Opening socket connection to server
localhost.localdomain/127.0.0.1:2181

2017-10-20 13:17:33,369 WARN  org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn
                     - Session 0x0 for server null, unexpected error,
closing socket connection and attempting reconnect

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused

        at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.checkConnect(Native Method)

        at 
sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.finishConnect(SocketChannelImpl.java:717)

        at 
org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNIO.doTransport(ClientCnxnSocketNIO.java:361)

        at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.run(ClientCnxn.java:1081)

2017-10-20 13:17:33,475 WARN
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.RecoverableZooKeeper        -
Possibly transient ZooKeeper, quorum=localhost:2181,
exception=org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException$ConnectionLossException:
KeeperErrorCode = ConnectionLoss for /hbase/hbaseid



The value 'localhost:2181' has been defined within the HBase jar in the
hbase-default.xml as the default value for the zookeeper nodes.

As a workaround I currently put this extra line in my code which I know is
nasty but "works on my cluster"

hbaseConfig.addResource(new Path("file:/etc/hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml"));


What am I doing wrong?

What is the right way to fix this?

-- 
Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten,

Niels Basjes