Submitting applications to a cluster
This recipe shows how to run an application on distributed clusters. An application is launched on a set of machines using an external service called a cluster manager. There is a wide variety of cluster managers such as Hadoop YARN, Apache Mesos, and Spark's own built-in standalone cluster manager. Spark provides a single tool for submitting jobs across all cluster managers, called spark-submit. Through various options, spark-submit can connect to different cluster managers and control how many resources your application gets.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need a running Spark cluster either in pseudo distributed mode or in one of the distributed modes, that is, standalone, YARN, or Mesos. ...
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