https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Single-ZooKeeper-service-to-point-to-is-there-an-alias-for/m-p/23613#M4580 If your services (eg: HDFS, HBase) are marked as dependent on that<BR />ZooKeeper service, then the ensemble will a part of their config<BR />(hdfs-site.xml, hbase-site.xml). If your application uses HBase for<BR />example, then mark the node as a gateway which will deploy the config in<BR />/etc/hbase, then let your app use those.<BR /><BR />If you're running a custom app that has its own set of config files, then<BR />you should provide all ZooKeeper servers. Pointing to only one would mean<BR />you might face an outage if it is down. The ZooKeeper client libraries know<BR />how to deal with multiple servers and switch connections if one goes down.<BR /><BR /> Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:46:50 GMT GautamG 2015-01-12T23:46:50Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Single-ZooKeeper-service-to-point-to-is-there-an-alias-for/m-p/23609#M4579 <P>I am running CDH 5.2 managed by Parcels and CM 5.2. I have a few Java applications that require ZooKeeper and I don't like to point to a specific named host because the host could potentially change. Is there a ZooKeeper alias I can use that will point my query to the leader of the ZooKeeper quorum? Or can I just point to any of the three ZooKeeper services and expect my query to work. What I'm looking for is one name for ZooKeeper that will be correct no matter what host I'm running the ZooKeeper servers from. Any advice would be appreciated.&nbsp;</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:18:42 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Single-ZooKeeper-service-to-point-to-is-there-an-alias-for/m-p/23609#M4579 IT.Services 2022-09-16T09:18:42Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Single-ZooKeeper-service-to-point-to-is-there-an-alias-for/m-p/23613#M4580 If your services (eg: HDFS, HBase) are marked as dependent on that<BR />ZooKeeper service, then the ensemble will a part of their config<BR />(hdfs-site.xml, hbase-site.xml). If your application uses HBase for<BR />example, then mark the node as a gateway which will deploy the config in<BR />/etc/hbase, then let your app use those.<BR /><BR />If you're running a custom app that has its own set of config files, then<BR />you should provide all ZooKeeper servers. Pointing to only one would mean<BR />you might face an outage if it is down. The ZooKeeper client libraries know<BR />how to deal with multiple servers and switch connections if one goes down.<BR /><BR /> Mon, 12 Jan 2015 23:46:50 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Single-ZooKeeper-service-to-point-to-is-there-an-alias-for/m-p/23613#M4580 GautamG 2015-01-12T23:46:50Z