diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-EC-7285.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-EC-7285.txt
index 01d8cf032a..e7335b2165 100755
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-EC-7285.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES-HDFS-EC-7285.txt
@@ -265,3 +265,6 @@
 
     HDFS-8481. Erasure coding: remove workarounds in client side stripped blocks 
     recovering. (zhz)
+
+    HDFS-8336. Expose some administrative erasure coding operations to HdfsAdmin
+    (Uma Maheswara Rao G via vinayakumarb)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/client/HdfsAdmin.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/client/HdfsAdmin.java
index 84499bb3d4..5a3c885b49 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/client/HdfsAdmin.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/client/HdfsAdmin.java
@@ -37,9 +37,11 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.CachePoolEntry;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.CachePoolInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.EncryptionZone;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.ErasureCodingZone;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.HdfsConstants;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.DFSAdmin;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.erasurecode.ECSchema;
 
 /**
  * The public API for performing administrative functions on HDFS. Those writing
@@ -363,4 +365,42 @@ public void setStoragePolicy(final Path src, final String policyName)
       throws IOException {
     dfs.setStoragePolicy(src, policyName);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Create the ErasureCoding zone
+   *
+   * @param path
+   *          Directory to create the ErasureCoding zone
+   * @param schema
+   *          ECSchema for the zone. If not specified default will be used.
+   * @param cellSize
+   *          Cellsize for the striped ErasureCoding
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  public void createErasureCodingZone(final Path path, final ECSchema schema,
+      final int cellSize) throws IOException {
+    dfs.createErasureCodingZone(path, schema, cellSize);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Get the ErasureCoding zone information for the specified path
+   *
+   * @param path
+   * @return Returns the zone information if path is in EC zone, null otherwise
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  public ErasureCodingZone getErasureCodingZone(final Path path)
+      throws IOException {
+    return dfs.getErasureCodingZone(path);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Get the ErasureCoding schemas supported.
+   *
+   * @return ECSchemas
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  public ECSchema[] getECSchemas() throws IOException {
+    return dfs.getClient().getECSchemas();
+  }
 }