Auto renewal of Kerberos ticket not working from Java

Question

In my server application I\'m connecting to Kerberos secured Hadoop cluster from my java application. On the application startup I do call

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Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is a known issue with automatic renewal not working correctly when using the UserGroupInformation#loginUserFromKeytabAndReturnUGI method. I am not aware of any known code fix within Apache Hadoop at this time.

Your solution to add a call to UserGroupInformation#checkTGTAndReloginFromKeytab is a viable workaround. I recommend that you stick with that for now and keep an eye on Apache Hadoop release notes to see if there is a fix committed in the future.