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 <h1>Apache Kudu Quickstart</h1>
       <div id="preamble">
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Follow these instructions to set up and run a local Kudu Cluster using Docker,
 and get started using Apache Kudu in minutes.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="admonitionblock note">
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td class="icon">
 <i class="fa icon-note" title="Note"></i>
 </td>
 <td class="content">
 This is intended for demonstration purposes only and shouldn&#8217;t
 be used for production or performance/scale testing.
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="quickstart_vm"><a class="link" href="#quickstart_vm">Install Docker</a></h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Follow the Docker <a href="https://docs.docker.com/install/">install documentation</a>
 to install docker in your Linux, Mac, or Windows environment.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>You may also want to read through the Docker getting started guide, but that isn&#8217;t a requirement.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_clone_the_repository"><a class="link" href="#_clone_the_repository">Clone the Repository</a></h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Clone the Apache Kudu repository using Git and change to the <code>kudu</code> directory:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">git clone https://github.com/apache/kudu
 cd kudu</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_start_the_quickstart_cluster"><a class="link" href="#_start_the_quickstart_cluster">Start the Quickstart Cluster</a></h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="_set_kudu_quickstart_ip"><a class="link" href="#_set_kudu_quickstart_ip">Set KUDU_QUICKSTART_IP</a></h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Set the <code>KUDU_QUICKSTART_IP</code> environment variable to your ip address:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">export KUDU_QUICKSTART_IP=$(ifconfig | grep "inet " | grep -Fv 127.0.0.1 |  awk '{print $2}' | tail -1)</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="_bring_up_the_cluster"><a class="link" href="#_bring_up_the_cluster">Bring up the Cluster</a></h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Then use <code>docker-compose</code> to start a cluster with 3 master servers and 5 tablet servers.
 When inside the docker network/containers the master addresses will be
 <code>kudu-master-1:7051,kudu-master-2:7151,kudu-master-3:7251</code> and when on the host machine
 you can specify the master addresses with <code>localhost:7051,localhost:7151,localhost:7251</code>.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker-compose -f docker/quickstart.yml up</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="admonitionblock note">
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td class="icon">
 <i class="fa icon-note" title="Note"></i>
 </td>
 <td class="content">
 You can include the <code>-d</code> flag to run the cluster in the background.
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="_view_the_web_ui"><a class="link" href="#_view_the_web_ui">View the Web-UI</a></h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Once the cluster is started you can view the master web-ui by visiting <a href="localhost:8050">localhost:8050</a>.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="_check_the_cluster_health"><a class="link" href="#_check_the_cluster_health">Check the cluster health</a></h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Use the command below to get a bash shell in the <code>kudu-master-1</code> container:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker exec -it $(docker ps -aqf "name=kudu-master-1") /bin/bash</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>You can now run the Kudu <code>ksck</code> tool to verify the cluster is healthy:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">kudu cluster ksck kudu-master-1:7051,kudu-master-2:7151,kudu-master-3:7251</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Alternatively, if you have a kudu binary available on your host machine,
 you can run <code>ksck</code> there via:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">export KUDU_USER_NAME=kudu
 kudu cluster ksck localhost:7051,localhost:7151,localhost:7251</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="admonitionblock note">
 <table>
 <tr>
 <td class="icon">
 <i class="fa icon-note" title="Note"></i>
 </td>
 <td class="content">
 Setting <code>KUDU_USER_NAME=kudu</code> simplifies using Kudu from various user
 accounts in a non-secure environment.
 </td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_running_a_brief_example"><a class="link" href="#_running_a_brief_example">Running a Brief Example</a></h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Now that a Kudu cluster is up and running, examples and integrations can be
 run against the cluster. The commands below run the <code>java-example</code> against
 the quickstart cluster:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">export KUDU_USER_NAME=kudu
 cd examples/java/java-example
 mvn package
 java -DkuduMasters=localhost:7051,localhost:7151,localhost:7251 -jar target/kudu-java-example-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_more_examples"><a class="link" href="#_more_examples">More Examples</a></h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>More complete walkthroughs using the quickstart Kudu cluster can be found in the
 <code>examples/quickstart</code> directory. For convenience you can browse them on
 <a href="https://github.com/apache/kudu/tree/master/examples/quickstart">Github</a>.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_destroying_the_cluster"><a class="link" href="#_destroying_the_cluster">Destroying the Cluster</a></h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Once you are done with the quickstart cluster you can shutdown in a couple of ways.
 If you ran <code>docker-compose</code> without the <code>-d</code> flag, you can use <code>ctrl + c</code> to
 stop the cluster.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>If you ran <code>docker-compose</code> with the <code>-d</code> flag, you can use the following to
 gracefully shutdown the cluster:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker-compose -f docker/quickstart.yml down</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Another alternative is to stop all of the Kudu containers via:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker stop $(docker ps -aqf "name=kudu")</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>If you want to remove the cluster state you can also remove the docker
 containers and volumes via:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker rm $(docker ps -aqf "name=kudu")
 docker volume rm $(docker volume ls --filter name=kudu -q)</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_troubleshooting"><a class="link" href="#_troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a></h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="_viewing_the_logs"><a class="link" href="#_viewing_the_logs">Viewing the logs</a></h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>To view the logs you can use the <code>docker logs</code> command. Below is an example
 that will show the logs one of the tablet servers:</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker logs $(docker ps -aqf "name=kudu-tserver-1")</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="_changing_the_kudu_version"><a class="link" href="#_changing_the_kudu_version">Changing the Kudu version</a></h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>To change the version of Kudu Docker images used you can override the default value
 of <code>latest</code> by setting the <code>KUDU_QUICKSTART_VERSION</code> environment variable.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="listingblock">
 <div class="content">
 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">export KUDU_QUICKSTART_VERSION="1.9.0"</code></pre>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="_changing_the_kudu_configuration"><a class="link" href="#_changing_the_kudu_configuration">Changing the Kudu configuration</a></h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>To change the configuration flags passed to the master and tablet servers you
 can edit the <code>docker/quickstart.yml</code> file before starting the cluster.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect2">
 <h3 id="_killing_a_kudu_master"><a class="link" href="#_killing_a_kudu_master">Killing a Kudu master</a></h3>
 <div class="paragraph">
 <p>Due to <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-1620">KUDU-1620</a> master hosts
 are always expected to be reachable.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="sect1">
 <h2 id="_next_steps"><a class="link" href="#_next_steps">Next Steps</a></h2>
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 <div class="ulist">
 <ul>
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 <p><a href="installation.html">Installing Kudu</a></p>
 </li>
 <li>
 <p><a href="configuration.html">Configuring Kudu</a></p>
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           <a href="index.html">Introducing Kudu</a>
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           <a href="release_notes.html">Kudu Release Notes</a>
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 <span class="active-toc">Quickstart Guide</span>
             <ul class="sectlevel1">
 <li><a href="#quickstart_vm">Install Docker</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_clone_the_repository">Clone the Repository</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_start_the_quickstart_cluster">Start the Quickstart Cluster</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel2">
 <li><a href="#_set_kudu_quickstart_ip">Set KUDU_QUICKSTART_IP</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_bring_up_the_cluster">Bring up the Cluster</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_view_the_web_ui">View the Web-UI</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_check_the_cluster_health">Check the cluster health</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a href="#_running_a_brief_example">Running a Brief Example</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_more_examples">More Examples</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_destroying_the_cluster">Destroying the Cluster</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a>
 <ul class="sectlevel2">
 <li><a href="#_viewing_the_logs">Viewing the logs</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_changing_the_kudu_version">Changing the Kudu version</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_changing_the_kudu_configuration">Changing the Kudu configuration</a></li>
 <li><a href="#_killing_a_kudu_master">Killing a Kudu master</a></li>
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 <li><a href="#_next_steps">Next Steps</a></li>
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	<h1>Apache Kudu Quickstart</h1>
	<div id="preamble">
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Follow these instructions to set up and run a local Kudu Cluster using Docker,
	and get started using Apache Kudu in minutes.</p>
	</div>
	<div class="admonitionblock note">
	<table>
	<tr>
	<td class="icon">
	<i class="fa icon-note" title="Note"></i>
	</td>
	<td class="content">
	This is intended for demonstration purposes only and shouldn’t
	be used for production or performance/scale testing.
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect1">
	<h2 id="quickstart_vm"><a class="link" href="#quickstart_vm">Install Docker</a></h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Follow the Docker <a href="https://docs.docker.com/install/">install documentation</a>
	to install docker in your Linux, Mac, or Windows environment.</p>
	</div>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>You may also want to read through the Docker getting started guide, but that isn’t a requirement.</p>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect1">
	<h2 id="_clone_the_repository"><a class="link" href="#_clone_the_repository">Clone the Repository</a></h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Clone the Apache Kudu repository using Git and change to the <code>kudu</code> directory:</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">git clone https://github.com/apache/kudu
	cd kudu</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect1">
	<h2 id="_start_the_quickstart_cluster"><a class="link" href="#_start_the_quickstart_cluster">Start the Quickstart Cluster</a></h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="sect2">
	<h3 id="_set_kudu_quickstart_ip"><a class="link" href="#_set_kudu_quickstart_ip">Set KUDU_QUICKSTART_IP</a></h3>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Set the <code>KUDU_QUICKSTART_IP</code> environment variable to your ip address:</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">export KUDU_QUICKSTART_IP=$(ifconfig \| grep "inet " \| grep -Fv 127.0.0.1 \| awk '{print $2}' \| tail -1)</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect2">
	<h3 id="_bring_up_the_cluster"><a class="link" href="#_bring_up_the_cluster">Bring up the Cluster</a></h3>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Then use <code>docker-compose</code> to start a cluster with 3 master servers and 5 tablet servers.
	When inside the docker network/containers the master addresses will be
	<code>kudu-master-1:7051,kudu-master-2:7151,kudu-master-3:7251</code> and when on the host machine
	you can specify the master addresses with <code>localhost:7051,localhost:7151,localhost:7251</code>.</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker-compose -f docker/quickstart.yml up</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="admonitionblock note">
	<table>
	<tr>
	<td class="icon">
	<i class="fa icon-note" title="Note"></i>
	</td>
	<td class="content">
	You can include the <code>-d</code> flag to run the cluster in the background.
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect2">
	<h3 id="_view_the_web_ui"><a class="link" href="#_view_the_web_ui">View the Web-UI</a></h3>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Once the cluster is started you can view the master web-ui by visiting <a href="localhost:8050">localhost:8050</a>.</p>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect2">
	<h3 id="_check_the_cluster_health"><a class="link" href="#_check_the_cluster_health">Check the cluster health</a></h3>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Use the command below to get a bash shell in the <code>kudu-master-1</code> container:</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker exec -it $(docker ps -aqf "name=kudu-master-1") /bin/bash</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>You can now run the Kudu <code>ksck</code> tool to verify the cluster is healthy:</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">kudu cluster ksck kudu-master-1:7051,kudu-master-2:7151,kudu-master-3:7251</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Alternatively, if you have a kudu binary available on your host machine,
	you can run <code>ksck</code> there via:</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">export KUDU_USER_NAME=kudu
	kudu cluster ksck localhost:7051,localhost:7151,localhost:7251</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="admonitionblock note">
	<table>
	<tr>
	<td class="icon">
	<i class="fa icon-note" title="Note"></i>
	</td>
	<td class="content">
	Setting <code>KUDU_USER_NAME=kudu</code> simplifies using Kudu from various user
	accounts in a non-secure environment.
	</td>
	</tr>
	</table>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect1">
	<h2 id="_running_a_brief_example"><a class="link" href="#_running_a_brief_example">Running a Brief Example</a></h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Now that a Kudu cluster is up and running, examples and integrations can be
	run against the cluster. The commands below run the <code>java-example</code> against
	the quickstart cluster:</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">export KUDU_USER_NAME=kudu
	cd examples/java/java-example
	mvn package
	java -DkuduMasters=localhost:7051,localhost:7151,localhost:7251 -jar target/kudu-java-example-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect1">
	<h2 id="_more_examples"><a class="link" href="#_more_examples">More Examples</a></h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>More complete walkthroughs using the quickstart Kudu cluster can be found in the
	<code>examples/quickstart</code> directory. For convenience you can browse them on
	<a href="https://github.com/apache/kudu/tree/master/examples/quickstart">Github</a>.</p>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect1">
	<h2 id="_destroying_the_cluster"><a class="link" href="#_destroying_the_cluster">Destroying the Cluster</a></h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Once you are done with the quickstart cluster you can shutdown in a couple of ways.
	If you ran <code>docker-compose</code> without the <code>-d</code> flag, you can use <code>ctrl + c</code> to
	stop the cluster.</p>
	</div>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>If you ran <code>docker-compose</code> with the <code>-d</code> flag, you can use the following to
	gracefully shutdown the cluster:</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker-compose -f docker/quickstart.yml down</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Another alternative is to stop all of the Kudu containers via:</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker stop $(docker ps -aqf "name=kudu")</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>If you want to remove the cluster state you can also remove the docker
	containers and volumes via:</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker rm $(docker ps -aqf "name=kudu")
	docker volume rm $(docker volume ls --filter name=kudu -q)</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect1">
	<h2 id="_troubleshooting"><a class="link" href="#_troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a></h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="sect2">
	<h3 id="_viewing_the_logs"><a class="link" href="#_viewing_the_logs">Viewing the logs</a></h3>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>To view the logs you can use the <code>docker logs</code> command. Below is an example
	that will show the logs one of the tablet servers:</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">docker logs $(docker ps -aqf "name=kudu-tserver-1")</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect2">
	<h3 id="_changing_the_kudu_version"><a class="link" href="#_changing_the_kudu_version">Changing the Kudu version</a></h3>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>To change the version of Kudu Docker images used you can override the default value
	of <code>latest</code> by setting the <code>KUDU_QUICKSTART_VERSION</code> environment variable.</p>
	</div>
	<div class="listingblock">
	<div class="content">
	<pre class="highlight"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash">export KUDU_QUICKSTART_VERSION="1.9.0"</code></pre>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect2">
	<h3 id="_changing_the_kudu_configuration"><a class="link" href="#_changing_the_kudu_configuration">Changing the Kudu configuration</a></h3>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>To change the configuration flags passed to the master and tablet servers you
	can edit the <code>docker/quickstart.yml</code> file before starting the cluster.</p>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect2">
	<h3 id="_killing_a_kudu_master"><a class="link" href="#_killing_a_kudu_master">Killing a Kudu master</a></h3>
	<div class="paragraph">
	<p>Due to <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KUDU-1620">KUDU-1620</a> master hosts
	are always expected to be reachable.</p>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	</div>
	<div class="sect1">
	<h2 id="_next_steps"><a class="link" href="#_next_steps">Next Steps</a></h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="ulist">
	<ul>
	<li>
	<p><a href="installation.html">Installing Kudu</a></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><a href="configuration.html">Configuring Kudu</a></p>
	</li>
	</ul>
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	<a href="index.html">Introducing Kudu</a>
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	<a href="release_notes.html">Kudu Release Notes</a>
	</li>
	<li>
	<span class="active-toc">Quickstart Guide</span>
	<ul class="sectlevel1">
	<li><a href="#quickstart_vm">Install Docker</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_clone_the_repository">Clone the Repository</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_start_the_quickstart_cluster">Start the Quickstart Cluster</a>
	<ul class="sectlevel2">
	<li><a href="#_set_kudu_quickstart_ip">Set KUDU_QUICKSTART_IP</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_bring_up_the_cluster">Bring up the Cluster</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_view_the_web_ui">View the Web-UI</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_check_the_cluster_health">Check the cluster health</a></li>
	</ul>
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	<li><a href="#_running_a_brief_example">Running a Brief Example</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_more_examples">More Examples</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_destroying_the_cluster">Destroying the Cluster</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_troubleshooting">Troubleshooting</a>
	<ul class="sectlevel2">
	<li><a href="#_viewing_the_logs">Viewing the logs</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_changing_the_kudu_version">Changing the Kudu version</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_changing_the_kudu_configuration">Changing the Kudu configuration</a></li>
	<li><a href="#_killing_a_kudu_master">Killing a Kudu master</a></li>
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