Known Issues in Apache Kudu

Learn about the known issues in Kudu, the impact or changes to the functionality, and the workaround.

OPSAPS-65966: Kudu Ranger policies are not created on a cluster with custom kerberos principals.: If you are using custom kerberos principal setup then creating Kudu tables from impala-shell will result in a permission issue.; These policies can be added on Ranger UI.

Kudu HMS Sync is disabled and is not yet supported

You get "The user 'kudu' is not part of group 'hive' on the following hosts: " warning by the Host Inspector

If you are using fine grained authorization for Kudu, and you are also using Kudu-HMS integration with HDFS-Sentry sync, then you may get the "The user 'kudu' is not part of group 'hive' on the following hosts: " warning while upgrading.

Workaround: Run the following command on all the HMS servers:

usermod -aG hive kudu