I have specific requirements for applications I'm building that need to access remote clusters. By "remote" I mean a Hadoop cluster whose configuration is not stored in the local hdfs-site/core-site xml files on the server the application is hosted. I've found the easiest way to connect to a remote cluster in Java is to just use the FileSystem api and pass in the active name node along with a configuration. However, it is bad practice, insecure, and unreliable to store Hadoop cluster configurations for a cluster in the code itself. Is there a "right" way to be getting a remote cluster's active name node? Does Hadoop provide an API or something that I could call to get this information? ... View more