need help: format of "thehost"

[hengtelin]

Hey thank you so much for providing such a good package.
I'm new to Hbase and thus need some help.

If I want to access a remote Hbase, what should I put in the set("spark.hbase.host", "thehost")?
is it similiar to mongodb as 10.200.xx.xxx:27017 (host:port)? Do I need to add computer user name and password?

Thanks in advance!

[nicolaferraro]

Hi, you just need to put the hostname where an instance of zookeeper is listening on port 2181 (omit the port).

If you have docker installed in your workstation, you can try my all-in-one solution for hbase. Just run:

docker run -d -h hbase -p 2181:2181 -p 60000:60000 -p 60010:60010 -p 60020:60020 -p 60030:60030 --name hbase dockmob/hbase -t pseudodistributed

And you create a local instance of hbase (master+regional ever+zookeeper) that you can control later by using: docker start hbase, or docker stop hbase.

To connect to the docker instance, you need to modify your /etc/hosts file to append 'hbase' to the line where '127.0.0.1' is already present (Linux and latest beta versions of docker for Mac and windows) or add a line with the host of boot2docker VM: usually '192.168.99.100 hbase'.

Once set, you can use 'hbase' as "thehost".

[nicolaferraro]

Oh, if you already have a remote instance of hbase, you just need to make sure that you can reach each hbase region server using the internal IP address scheme (I.e. the IP addresses known by zookeeper). Being in the same LAN or VPN does the trick. Once done, just point to the node hosting a zookeeper server.

[hengtelin]

thank you so much nicolaferraro! You've been really helpful :)

[chetkhatri]

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