Best way to pass configuration properties to MRv2 jobs

[Henning Blohm <he...@zfabrik.de>]

Hi,

in our Hadoop 2.6.0 cluster, we need to pass some properties to all 
Hadoop processes so they can be referenced using ${...} syntax in 
configuration files. This works reasonably well using 
HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS and the like.

For Map/Reduce jobs however, we need to speficy not only

mapred.child.java.opts

to pass system properties, in addition we need to set

yarn.app.mapreduce.am.command-opts

for anything that is referenced in Hadoop configuration files.

In the end however almost all the properties passed are available as 
environment variables as well.

Hence my question:

* Is it possible to use reference environment variables in configuration 
files directly?
* Does anybody know of a simpler way to make sure some system properties 
are _always_ set for all Yarn processes?

Thanks,
Henning


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