diff --git a/bin/hbase b/bin/hbase
index c562ad8fb3dd..8f58bf578a55 100755
--- a/bin/hbase
+++ b/bin/hbase
@@ -221,6 +221,14 @@ if [ "$HBASE_DISABLE_HADOOP_CLASSPATH_LOOKUP" != "true" ] ; then
   HADOOP_IN_PATH=$(PATH="${HADOOP_HOME:-${HADOOP_PREFIX}}/bin:$PATH" which hadoop 2>/dev/null)
 fi
 
+#If Hadoop is not specified with HADOOP_HOME, check that the assembly includes Hadoop
+if [[ -z "${HADOOP_IN_PATH}" && ! -e "lib/hadoop-common*" ]] ; then
+  echo Installation does not contain Hadoop, and HADOOP_HOME does not point to a Hadoop installation.
+  echo Specify a compatible Hadoop installation via HADOOP_HOME, or use the HBase assembly variant
+  echo that includes Hadoop.
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 # Add libs to CLASSPATH
 declare shaded_jar
 
diff --git a/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/pom.xml b/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..30fd102ff45c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,439 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <!--
+    /**
+     * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+     * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+     * distributed with this work for additional information
+     * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+     * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+     * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+     * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+     *
+     *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+     *
+     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+     * limitations under the License.
+     */
+    -->
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+    <artifactId>hbase-build-configuration</artifactId>
+    <version>${revision}</version>
+    <relativePath>../hbase-build-configuration</relativePath>
+  </parent>
+  <artifactId>hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop</artifactId>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+  <name>Apache HBase - Assembly without Hadoop and its transitive dependencies</name>
+  <description>Module that does project assembly without Hadoop and its transitive dependencies and that is all that it does.</description>
+  <properties>
+    <license.bundles.dependencies>true</license.bundles.dependencies>
+    <!-- So that we don't have to add redundant exclusions to provided scope dependencies -->
+    <enforcer.skip>true</enforcer.skip>
+  </properties>
+  <dependencies>
+    <!-- Set every Hadoop dependency as provided. The byo-hadoop assembly relies an external Hadoop installation -->
+    <!-- These MUST come first, otherwise some transitive dependencies are not be excluded -->
+    <!-- When Hadoop and HBase depend on different versions of the same artifact, then even if it is provided,
+    the first version specified is used, so in some cases we need to exclude those transitive dependencies from
+    Hadoop to have an equivalent effective classpath to the assembly with Hadoop. -->
+    <!-- The versions may be marked as redundant by some IDEs, but they are not defined elsewhere for the provided scope -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-api</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-client</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-yarn-common</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
+          <artifactId>jackson-module-jaxb-annotations</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>
+          <artifactId>jakarta.xml.bind-api</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-core</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-auth</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.checkerframework</groupId>
+          <artifactId>checker-qual</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-annotations</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-distcp</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs-client</artifactId>
+      <version>${hadoop-three.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- client artifacts for downstream use -->
+    <!-- skip hbase-shaded-client. We don't want any Hadoop code in the assembly-->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-shaded-client-byo-hadoop</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-shaded-mapreduce</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- Intra-project dependencies -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-openssl</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-server</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-endpoint</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-mapreduce</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-hadoop-compat</artifactId>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+          <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-shell</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-thrift</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-rest</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-external-blockcache</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-metrics-api</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-metrics</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-protocol-shaded</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-resource-bundle</artifactId>
+      <optional>true</optional>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+      <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+      <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-asyncfs</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-backup</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-balancer</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-replication</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-http</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-zookeeper</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-hbtop</artifactId>
+      <exclusions>
+        <!-- hbase-top will pick up hbase-shaded-client-byo-hadoop from the classpath -->
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+          <artifactId>hbase-shaded-client</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-compression-aircompressor</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-compression-brotli</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-compression-lz4</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-compression-snappy</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-compression-zstd</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hbase-diagnostics</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>jline</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jline</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <!--
+      Include the log framework here.
+      For other sub modules, we only declare slf4j-api as a compile dependency,
+      so here we must pull in the real logging framework to actually log to log4j.
+    -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jul-to-slf4j</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-1.2-api</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- Include OpenTelemetry agent -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>io.opentelemetry.javaagent</groupId>
+      <artifactId>opentelemetry-javaagent</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- This is an optional dependency of hbase-external-blockcache.
+    The assembly traditionally includes it, so we add it as an explicit dependency -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>net.spy</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spymemcached</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- The tomcat JSP Compiler dependencies are not needed for runtime -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
+      <artifactId>tomcat-juli</artifactId>
+      <version>${tomcat.version.for.exclusion}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
+      <artifactId>tomcat-api</artifactId>
+      <version>${tomcat.version.for.exclusion}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
+      <artifactId>tomcat-util-scan</artifactId>
+      <version>${tomcat.version.for.exclusion}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
+      <artifactId>tomcat-util</artifactId>
+      <version>${tomcat.version.for.exclusion}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <!-- licensing info from our dependencies -->
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-remote-resources-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>aggregate-licenses</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>process</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <properties>
+                <copyright-end-year>${build.year}</copyright-end-year>
+                <debug-print-included-work-info>${license.debug.print.included}</debug-print-included-work-info>
+                <bundled-dependencies>${license.bundles.dependencies}</bundled-dependencies>
+                <bundled-jquery>${license.bundles.jquery}</bundled-jquery>
+                <bundled-vega>${license.bundles.vega}</bundled-vega>
+                <bundled-logo>${license.bundles.logo}</bundled-logo>
+                <bundled-bootstrap>${license.bundles.bootstrap}</bundled-bootstrap>
+              </properties>
+              <resourceBundles>
+                <resourceBundle>${project.groupId}:hbase-resource-bundle:${project.version}</resourceBundle>
+              </resourceBundles>
+              <supplementalModelArtifacts>
+                <supplementalModelArtifact>${project.groupId}:hbase-resource-bundle:${project.version}</supplementalModelArtifact>
+              </supplementalModelArtifacts>
+              <supplementalModels>
+                <supplementalModel>supplemental-models.xml</supplementalModel>
+              </supplementalModels>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <!--Else will use hbase-assembly as final name.-->
+          <finalName>hbase-byo-hadoop-${project.version}</finalName>
+          <skipAssembly>false</skipAssembly>
+          <appendAssemblyId>true</appendAssemblyId>
+          <tarLongFileMode>posix</tarLongFileMode>
+          <descriptors>
+            <descriptor>${assembly.file}</descriptor>
+          </descriptors>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <!--
+           Build an aggregation of our templated NOTICE file and the NOTICE files in our dependencies.
+           If MASSEMBLY-382 is fixed we could do this in the assembly
+           Currently relies on env, bash, find, and cat.
+        -->
+          <execution>
+            <!-- put all of the NOTICE files out of our dependencies -->
+            <id>unpack-dependency-notices</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <phase>prepare-package</phase>
+            <configuration>
+              <excludeTypes>pom</excludeTypes>
+              <useSubDirectoryPerArtifact>true</useSubDirectoryPerArtifact>
+              <includes>**\/NOTICE,**\/NOTICE.txt</includes>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>${exec.maven.version}</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>concat-NOTICE-files</id>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>exec</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <phase>package</phase>
+            <configuration>
+              <executable>env</executable>
+              <arguments>
+                <argument>bash</argument>
+                <argument>-c</argument>
+                <argument>cat maven-shared-archive-resources/META-INF/NOTICE \
+                  `find ${project.build.directory}/dependency -iname NOTICE -or -iname NOTICE.txt`</argument>
+              </arguments>
+              <outputFile>${project.build.directory}/NOTICE.aggregate</outputFile>
+              <workingDirectory>${project.build.directory}</workingDirectory>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+      <!-- /end building aggregation of NOTICE files -->
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/src/main/assembly/components.xml b/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/src/main/assembly/components.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f79b2e754caf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/src/main/assembly/components.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+-->
+
+<!-- Filesets shared by different binary tars. -->
+<component>
+  <fileSets>
+    <!--Copy over the site if built as docs dir -->
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/../target/site</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>docs</outputDirectory>
+      <!--Don't include dev apidocs. They bloat the tgz by almost 50%.
+           See HBASE-20149-->
+      <excludes>
+        <exclude>**/*devapidocs/**</exclude>
+      </excludes>
+    </fileSet>
+    <!-- Include top level text files-->
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/..</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>.</outputDirectory>
+      <includes>
+        <include>CHANGES.md</include>
+        <include>RELEASENOTES.md</include>
+        <include>README.txt</include>
+      </includes>
+      <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
+    </fileSet>
+    <!-- Include the top level conf directory -->
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/../conf</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>conf</outputDirectory>
+      <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
+      <directoryMode>0755</directoryMode>
+    </fileSet>
+    <!-- Include top level bin directory -->
+    <!-- First copy all but the *.cmd files-->
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/../bin</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory>
+      <excludes>
+        <exclude>**/*.cmd</exclude>
+      </excludes>
+      <fileMode>0755</fileMode>
+      <directoryMode>0755</directoryMode>
+    </fileSet>
+    <!--Now do the cmd files; we do not want these executable.-->
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/../bin</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory>
+      <includes>
+        <include>**/*.cmd</include>
+      </includes>
+    </fileSet>
+    <!-- Move the webapps to the webapp dir -->
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/../hbase-server/target/hbase-webapps</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>hbase-webapps</outputDirectory>
+      <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
+      <directoryMode>0755</directoryMode>
+    </fileSet>
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/../hbase-thrift/target/hbase-webapps</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>hbase-webapps/</outputDirectory>
+      <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
+      <directoryMode>0755</directoryMode>
+    </fileSet>
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/../hbase-rest/target/hbase-webapps</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>hbase-webapps/</outputDirectory>
+      <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
+      <directoryMode>0755</directoryMode>
+    </fileSet>
+    <!-- Include native libraries -->
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/../hbase-server/target/native</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>lib/native</outputDirectory>
+      <fileMode>0755</fileMode>
+      <directoryMode>0755</directoryMode>
+      <includes>
+        <include>*.so</include>
+        <include>*.dylib</include>
+      </includes>
+    </fileSet>
+    <!-- includes for native client -->
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>${project.basedir}/../hbase-common/target/generated-sources/native</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>include</outputDirectory>
+      <fileMode>0644</fileMode>
+      <directoryMode>0755</directoryMode>
+      <includes>
+          <include>**/*.h</include>
+      </includes>
+    </fileSet>
+  </fileSets>
+</component>
diff --git a/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/src/main/assembly/hadoop-three-compat.xml b/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/src/main/assembly/hadoop-three-compat.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..794d1db85177
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/src/main/assembly/hadoop-three-compat.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.1 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.1.xsd">
+<!--
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+-->
+
+  <!--This 'all' id is not appended to the produced bundle because we do this: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/faq.html#required-classifiers -->
+  <id>bin</id>
+  <formats>
+    <format>tar.gz</format>
+  </formats>
+  <componentDescriptors>
+    <componentDescriptor>src/main/assembly/components.xml</componentDescriptor>
+  </componentDescriptors>
+  <!-- Include the generated LICENSE and NOTICE files -->
+  <files>
+    <file>
+      <source>${project.build.directory}/maven-shared-archive-resources/META-INF/LICENSE</source>
+      <outputDirectory>.</outputDirectory>
+      <destName>LICENSE.txt</destName>
+      <lineEnding>unix</lineEnding>
+    </file>
+    <file>
+      <source>${project.build.directory}/NOTICE.aggregate</source>
+      <outputDirectory>.</outputDirectory>
+      <destName>NOTICE.txt</destName>
+      <lineEnding>unix</lineEnding>
+    </file>
+    <file>
+      <source>${basedir}/src/main/resources/META-INF/LEGAL</source>
+      <outputDirectory>.</outputDirectory>
+      <destName>LEGAL</destName>
+      <lineEnding>unix</lineEnding>
+    </file>
+  </files>
+
+  <dependencySets>
+    <dependencySet>
+      <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
+      <useTransitiveDependencies>true</useTransitiveDependencies>
+      <!-- Exclude artifacts added in the sub-directories to avoid duplication -->
+      <excludes>
+        <!-- Exclude the shaded jars that go in the lib/shaded-clients directory -->
+        <exclude>org.apache.hbase:hbase-shaded-mapreduce</exclude>
+        <exclude>org.apache.hbase:hbase-shaded-client-byo-hadoop</exclude>
+        <!-- Exclude the Ruby jar that goes in the lib/ruby directory -->
+        <exclude>org.jruby:jruby-complete</exclude>
+        <!-- Exclude jars that go into the lib/client-facing-thirdparty directory -->
+        <exclude>com.github.stephenc.findbugs:findbugs-annotations</exclude>
+        <exclude>commons-logging:commons-logging</exclude>
+        <exclude>log4j:log4j</exclude>
+        <exclude>org.apache.htrace:htrace-core4</exclude>
+        <exclude>org.apache.htrace:htrace-core</exclude>
+        <exclude>org.apache.yetus:audience-annotations</exclude>
+        <exclude>org.slf4j:*</exclude>
+        <exclude>org.apache.logging.log4j:*</exclude>
+        <exclude>io.opentelemetry:*</exclude>
+        <!-- Exclude the opentelemetry agent that goes in the lib/trace directory -->
+        <exclude>io.opentelemetry.javaagent:*</exclude>
+        <!-- Exclude jline2 which goes into lib/zk-client. jline3 is a different artifact-->
+        <exclude>jline:jline</exclude>
+        <!-- These two exclusions are added here to preserve previous behaviour, and are not included in sub-directories -->
+        <!-- TODO investigate using the provided mechanism for these -->
+        <exclude>com.sun.jersey:*</exclude>
+        <exclude>com.sun.jersey.contribs:*</exclude>
+        <!-- FIXME remove when jaxws-ri is removed from assembly -->
+        <exclude>com.sun.xml.ws:jaxws-ri:pom</exclude>
+      </excludes>
+    </dependencySet>
+    <!-- Add jruby-complete to hbase_home/lib/ruby.
+         Update JRUBY_PACKAGED_WITH_HBASE in bin/hbase and hbase.cmd if you would like to update outputDirectory below -->
+    <dependencySet>
+      <outputDirectory>lib/ruby</outputDirectory>
+      <includes>
+        <include>org.jruby:jruby-complete</include>
+      </includes>
+    </dependencySet>
+    <!-- Include third party dependencies the shaded clients expose in the lib directory
+      -->
+    <dependencySet>
+      <outputDirectory>lib/client-facing-thirdparty</outputDirectory>
+      <useTransitiveDependencies>true</useTransitiveDependencies>
+      <!-- Unfortunately, we have to whitelist these because Maven
+           currently doesn't use the dependency-reduced-pom after
+           the shaded module has done its thing. That means if we
+           did this as "transitives of the shaded modules" we'd
+           get a duplication of all the jars we already have in our
+           shaded artifacts. See MNG-5899.
+
+           Check that things match by listing files and making
+           sure the runtime scoped things are all present in the
+           tarball. e.g.:
+
+           for module in hbase-shaded-mapreduce hbase-shaded-client; do
+             mvn dependency:list -f hbase-shaded/${module}/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
+           done | \
+           grep -E "runtime|compile" | \
+           grep -v -E "junit|(optional)" | \
+           cut -d ' ' -f 3- | \
+           sort -u
+
+           TODO we should check this in nightly
+
+           Alternatively, we could
+           stop waiting for Maven to fix this and build the client
+           tarball in a different build.
+        -->
+      <includes>
+        <!-- TODO Review and remove entries that are not present in any supported HBase and Hadoop version -->
+        <include>com.github.stephenc.findbugs:findbugs-annotations</include>
+        <include>commons-logging:commons-logging</include>
+        <include>log4j:log4j</include>
+        <include>org.apache.htrace:htrace-core4</include>
+        <include>org.apache.htrace:htrace-core</include>
+        <include>org.apache.yetus:audience-annotations</include>
+        <include>org.slf4j:*</include>
+        <include>org.apache.logging.log4j:*</include>
+        <include>io.opentelemetry:*</include>
+      </includes>
+    </dependencySet>
+    <dependencySet>
+      <outputDirectory>lib/shaded-clients</outputDirectory>
+      <includes>
+        <include>org.apache.hbase:hbase-shaded-mapreduce</include>
+        <include>org.apache.hbase:hbase-shaded-client-byo-hadoop</include>
+      </includes>
+    </dependencySet>
+    <dependencySet>
+      <outputDirectory>lib/zkcli</outputDirectory>
+      <includes>
+        <!-- This is jline2 -->
+        <include>jline:jline</include>
+      </includes>
+    </dependencySet>
+    <dependencySet>
+      <outputDirectory>lib/trace</outputDirectory>
+      <includes>
+        <include>io.opentelemetry.javaagent:*</include>
+      </includes>
+    </dependencySet>
+  </dependencySets>
+</assembly>
diff --git a/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/src/main/resources/META-INF/LEGAL b/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/src/main/resources/META-INF/LEGAL
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9ac7f5a78b15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop/src/main/resources/META-INF/LEGAL
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+In Ruby's source distribution, this would describe a number of C source files
+that have different licenses than Ruby itself. None of those apply to JRuby,
+so we have this file here as a placeholder.
+
+For details of licensing of this collective work, see LICENSE
diff --git a/hbase-assembly/pom.xml b/hbase-assembly/pom.xml
index c9db9a9ddee5..4631d365172b 100644
--- a/hbase-assembly/pom.xml
+++ b/hbase-assembly/pom.xml
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-shaded-mapreduce</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <!-- Intra-project dependencies -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
       <artifactId>hbase-openssl</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ac514d539387..3ceb1c3b0719 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -738,6 +738,7 @@
     <module>hbase-it</module>
     <module>hbase-examples</module>
     <module>hbase-assembly</module>
+    <module>hbase-assembly-byo-hadoop</module>
     <module>hbase-testing-util</module>
     <module>hbase-annotations</module>
     <module>hbase-rest</module>
@@ -1027,6 +1028,11 @@
           is what glassfish's jspC jar uses and that's where we get our own need for a jsp-api.
         -->
       <!-- Intra-module dependencies -->
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
+        <artifactId>hbase-annotations</artifactId>
+        <version>${project.version}</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
         <artifactId>hbase-annotations</artifactId>