ndimiduk commented on a change in pull request #1164: HBASE-23331: Documentation for HBASE-18095 URL: https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/1164#discussion_r378612292
########## File path: src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/configuration.adoc ########## @@ -563,38 +563,63 @@ Changes here will require a cluster restart for HBase to notice the change thoug If you are running HBase in standalone mode, you don't need to configure anything for your client to work provided that they are all on the same machine. -Since the HBase Master may move around, clients bootstrap by looking to ZooKeeper for current critical locations. -ZooKeeper is where all these values are kept. -Thus clients require the location of the ZooKeeper ensemble before they can do anything else. -Usually this ensemble location is kept out in the _hbase-site.xml_ and is picked up by the client from the `CLASSPATH`. +Starting release 3.0.0, the default connection registry has been switched to a master based implementation. Refer to <<client.masterregistry>> for more details about +what a connection registry is and implications of this change. Depending on your HBase version, following is the expected minimal client configuration. -If you are configuring an IDE to run an HBase client, you should include the _conf/_ directory on your classpath so _hbase-site.xml_ settings can be found (or add _src/test/resources_ to pick up the hbase-site.xml used by tests). +==== Up until 2.x.y releases +In 2.x.y releases, the default connection registry was based on ZooKeeper as the source of truth. This means that the clients always looked up ZooKeeper znodes to fetch +the required metadata. For example, if an active master crashed and the a new master is elected, clients looked up the master znode to fetch +the active master address (similarly for meta locations). This meant that the clients needed to have access to ZooKeeper and need to now Review comment: a/now/know/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
