Configure Kudu processes

You can pass command-line flags when you start a Kudu process to configure its behavior or read those options from configuration files by passing them using one or more --flagfile=<file> options.

You can include the --flagfile option within your configuration file to include other files. Learn more about gflags by reading its documentation.

You can place options for masters and tablet servers in the same configuration file, and each will ignore options that do not apply.

Flags can be prefixed with either one or two - characters. This documentation standardizes on two: --example_flag.

Only the most common configuration options are documented in this topic. For a more exhaustive list of configuration options, see the Kudu Configuration Reference. To see all configuration flags for a given executable, run it with the --help option.