title: Configure SnakeBite HDFS clients to work with high availability mode
body: <p>I'm using the <a href="https://github.com/spotify/snakebite" rel="nofollow">snakebite</a> library to access HDFS from my airflow dags.</p>
  
  <p>My HDFS cluster has been upgraded to High Availability Mode. This now means that clients configured to point to only one name node will fail when that namenode is not the active node.</p>
  
  <p>What strategies can I use to make high availability mode highly available? Can I configure snakebite clients to failover to another node? Can I use some kind of loadbalancer to direct traffic to the right namenode?</p>