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Knox currently supports a number of Hadoop services, for which it can dynamically determine endpoint URLs from Ambari. Anyone is welcome to submit a patch to provide support for additional services, which in most cases won't require any code changes. The process for this will be outlined herein. Further, there may be cases where a permanent addition is not immediately desired or necessary (e.g., a proof-of-concept, a customer solution, etc...). In For these cases, this article will describe the process for extending Knox's service discovery support without modifying Knox at all.
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