In HDFSCLI docs it says that it can be configured to connect to multiple hosts by adding urls separated with semicolon ; (https://hdfscli.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html#configuration).
I use kerberos client, and this is my code -
from hdfs.ext.kerberos import KerberosClient hdfs_client = KerberosClient('http://host01:50070;http://host02:50070')
And when I try to makedir for example, I get the following error - requests.exceptions.InvalidURL: Failed to parse: http://host01:50070;http://host02:50070/webhdfs/v1/path/to/create
Apparently the version of hdfs I installed was old, the code didn't work with version 2.0.8, and it did work with version 2.5.7