Spark Plugin

this page last updated: 2019-01-21 14:49:23

Spark Plugin¶

The Spark plugin for sahara provides a way to provision Apache Spark clusters on OpenStack in a single click and in an easily repeatable fashion.

Currently Spark is installed in standalone mode, with no YARN or Mesos support.

Images¶

For cluster provisioning, prepared images should be used.

Support matrix for the spark plugin¶
Version (image tag)	Distribution	Build method	Version (build parameter)	Notes
2.3	Ubuntu 16.04, CentOS 7	sahara-image-pack	2.3	based on CDH 5.11 use –plugin_version to specify the minor version: 2.3.2 (default), 2.3.1 or 2.3.0
2.3	Ubuntu 16.04	sahara-image-create	2.3.0	based on CDH 5.11
2.2	Ubuntu 16.04, CentOS 7	sahara-image-pack	2.2	based on CDH 5.11 use –plugin_version to specify the minor version: 2.2.1 (default), or 2.2.0
2.2	Ubuntu 16.04	sahara-image-create	2.2.0	based on CDH 5.11

For more information about building image, refer to Sahara documentation.

The Spark plugin requires an image to be tagged in the sahara image registry with two tags: ‘spark’ and ‘<Spark version>’ (e.g. ‘1.6.0’).

The image requires a username. For more information, refer to the registering image section of the Sahara documentation.

Note that the Spark cluster is deployed using the scripts available in the Spark distribution, which allow the user to start all services (master and slaves), stop all services and so on. As such (and as opposed to CDH HDFS daemons), Spark is not deployed as a standard Ubuntu service and if the virtual machines are rebooted, Spark will not be restarted.

Build settings¶

When sahara-image-create is used, you can override few settings by exporting the corresponding environment variables before starting the build command:

SPARK_DOWNLOAD_URL - download link for Spark

Spark configuration¶

Spark needs few parameters to work and has sensible defaults. If needed they can be changed when creating the sahara cluster template. No node group options are available.

Once the cluster is ready, connect with ssh to the master using the ubuntu user and the appropriate ssh key. Spark is installed in /opt/spark and should be completely configured and ready to start executing jobs. At the bottom of the cluster information page from the OpenStack dashboard, a link to the Spark web interface is provided.

Cluster Validation¶

When a user creates an Hadoop cluster using the Spark plugin, the cluster topology requested by user is verified for consistency.

Currently there are the following limitations in cluster topology for the Spark plugin:

Cluster must contain exactly one HDFS namenode
Cluster must contain exactly one Spark master
Cluster must contain at least one Spark slave
Cluster must contain at least one HDFS datanode

The tested configuration co-locates the NameNode with the master and a DataNode with each slave to maximize data locality.