[HBASE-26173] Return only a sub set of region servers as bootstrap nodes

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.0, 3.0.0-alpha-2
• Component/s: Client
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Introduced a 'hbase.client.bootstrap.node.limit' config to limit the max number of bootstrap nodes we return to client. The default value is 10.
• Assignee: Duo Zhang
• Reporter: Duo Zhang
• Created: 05/Aug/21 09:38
• Updated: 25/Aug/21 18:16
• Resolved: 24/Aug/21 15:43

Description

For some large clusters we may have thousands of region servers, I do not think we need to return all the region servers as bootstrap nodes. For me I think ten servers is enough for a client usually?

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3599