Chapter 6. Maintenance and Security

In this chapter, we will focus on:

  • Enabling HBase RPC DEBUG-level logging
  • Graceful node decommissioning
  • Adding nodes to the cluster
  • Rolling restart
  • Simple script for managing HBase processes
  • Simple script for making deployment easier
  • Kerberos authentication for Hadoop and HBase
  • Configuring HDFS security with Kerberos
  • HBase security configuration

Introduction

After a cluster is delivered for operation, maintenance will be a necessary ongoing task while the cluster is in use. Typical maintenance tasks include finding out and correcting faults, changing cluster size, making configuration changes, and so on.

One of the most important HBase features is that it is extremely easy to scale in and out. As your service and data ...

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