The Configuration class which HBase relies on (just like Hadoop) allows
variable expansion like described here:

http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.204.0/api/org/apache/hadoop/conf/Configuration.html

Hopefully this can be of help.

BTW, why do you need different hbase-site.xml files within the same cluster?

J-D

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Ben Cuthbert <[email protected]> wrote:

> All
>
> We are running a large setup for hbase and it would be good to be able to
> run 1 property file for the whole cluster. so we can can change values
> in the hbase-site.xml. Is there a way to have the hbase-site.xml read from
> the env?
>
> something like
>
> <property>
>                <name>hbase.zookeeper.quorum</name>
>                <value>${HBASE.SERVER.ZOOKEEPER.QUORUM}</value>
>        </property>
>
>

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