Apache HDFS Connection¶

The Apache HDFS connection type enables connection to Apache HDFS.

Default Connection IDs¶

HDFS Hook uses parameter hdfs_conn_id for Connection IDs and the value of the parameter as hdfs_default by default. Web HDFS Hook uses parameter webhdfs_conn_id for Connection IDs and the value of the parameter as webhdfs_default by default.

Configuring the Connection¶

Host

The host to connect to, it can be local, yarn or an URL.

Port

Specify the port in case of host be an URL.

Login

Effective user for HDFS operations (non-Kerberized).

Extra (optional, connection parameters)

Specify the extra parameters (as json dictionary) that can be used in HDFS connection. The following parameters out of the standard python parameters are supported:

autoconfig - Default value is bool: False. Use snakebite’s automatically configured client. This HDFSHook implementation requires snakebite.
hdfs_namenode_principal - Specifies the Kerberos principal to use for HDFS.

The following extra parameters can be used to configure SSL for Web HDFS Hook:

use_ssl - If SSL should be used. By default is set to false.
verify - How to verify SSL. For more information refer to https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#ssl-cert-verification.