As an alternative, you could enable LDAP for Impala and then connect to the slaves directly thus bypassing Kerberos and the load balancer. ... View more

Yoga,   I just tried to repro your problem and I see a BYON-specific instance template popup.   One thing to note that may be confusing you is that Director requires an Type and Image field even though these concepts are not needed in BYON. Feel free to put anything you want in those fields.   If you click on the "Advanced Options", you can specify the preferred hosts for that template. Director will attempt to pick a host from that list on a best effort basis.   David   ... View more

Okay, I have it.   I was using the parcel_provisioner.sh script to preload the parcels into Docker images. However, when doing the pre-extraction the permissions on the container-executor weren't being set properly. For now, turning off the preextracting works however I'll test by manually setting the perms however I'm wondering how many other permissions aren't set properly.   FYI, the root:hadoop 400 permissions work because of the setuid flag on the container-executor binary. Now everything makes sense.   Thanks for the help! ... View more