Run tests: pipenv run python -m pytest An example actually connecting to HBase from a local machine, with thrift running on a devbox: ./backfill_hbase_from_cdx.py tests/files/example.cdx \ --hbase-table wbgrp-journal-extract-0-qa \ --hbase-host bnewbold-dev.us.archive.org Actual invocation to run on Hadoop cluster (running on an IA devbox, where hadoop environment is configured): # Create tarball of virtualenv pipenv shell tar -czf backfill-4OmRI0zZ.tar.gz -C /home/bnewbold/.local/share/virtualenvs/backfill-4OmRI0zZ . ./backfill_hbase_from_cdx.py \ -r hadoop \ --hbase-host bnewbold-dev.us.archive.org \ --hbase-table wbgrp-journal-extract-0-qa \ -c mrjob.conf \ --archive backfill-4OmRI0zZ.tar.gz#venv \ hdfs:///user/bnewbold/journal_crawl_cdx/citeseerx_crawl_2017.cdx