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Over time as we've added more deployment modes, this have gotten a bit unwieldy with user-facing configuration options in Spark. Going forward we'll advise all users to run `spark-submit` to launch applications. This is a WIP patch but it makes the following improvements:

1. Improved `spark-env.sh.template` which was missing a lot of things users now set in that file.
2. Removes the shipping of SPARK_CLASSPATH, SPARK_JAVA_OPTS, and SPARK_LIBRARY_PATH to the executors on the cluster. This was an ugly hack. Instead it introduces config variables spark.executor.extraJavaOpts, spark.executor.extraLibraryPath, and spark.executor.extraClassPath.
3. Adds ability to set these same variables for the driver using `spark-submit`.
4. Allows you to load system properties from a `spark-defaults.conf` file when running `spark-submit`. This will allow setting both SparkConf options and other system properties utilized by `spark-submit`.
5. Made `SPARK_LOCAL_IP` an environment variable rather than a SparkConf property. This is more consistent with it being set on each node.

Author: Patrick Wendell <pwendell@gmail.com>

Closes #299 from pwendell/config-cleanup and squashes the following commits:

127f301 [Patrick Wendell] Improvements to testing
a006464 [Patrick Wendell] Moving properties file template.
b4b496c [Patrick Wendell] spark-defaults.properties -> spark-defaults.conf
0086939 [Patrick Wendell] Minor style fixes
af09e3e [Patrick Wendell] Mention config file in docs and clean-up docs
b16e6a2 [Patrick Wendell] Cleanup of spark-submit script and Scala quick start guide
af0adf7 [Patrick Wendell] Automatically add user jar
a56b125 [Patrick Wendell] Responses to Tom's review
d50c388 [Patrick Wendell] Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into config-cleanup
a762901 [Patrick Wendell] Fixing test failures
ffa00fe [Patrick Wendell] Review feedback
fda0301 [Patrick Wendell] Note
308f1f6 [Patrick Wendell] Properly escape quotes and other clean-up for YARN
e83cd8f [Patrick Wendell] Changes to allow re-use of test applications
be42f35 [Patrick Wendell] Handle case where SPARK_HOME is not set
c2a2909 [Patrick Wendell] Test compile fixes
4ee6f9d [Patrick Wendell] Making YARN doc changes consistent
afc9ed8 [Patrick Wendell] Cleaning up line limits and two compile errors.
b08893b [Patrick Wendell] Additional improvements.
ace4ead [Patrick Wendell] Responses to review feedback.
b72d183 [Patrick Wendell] Review feedback for spark env file
46555c1 [Patrick Wendell] Review feedback and import clean-ups
437aed1 [Patrick Wendell] Small fix
761ebcd [Patrick Wendell] Library path and classpath for drivers
7cc70e4 [Patrick Wendell] Clean up terminology inside of spark-env script
5b0ba8e [Patrick Wendell] Don't ship executor envs
84cc5e5 [Patrick Wendell] Small clean-up
1f75238 [Patrick Wendell] SPARK_JAVA_OPTS --> SPARK_MASTER_OPTS for master settings
4982331 [Patrick Wendell] Remove SPARK_LIBRARY_PATH
6eaf7d0 [Patrick Wendell] executorJavaOpts
0faa3b6 [Patrick Wendell] Stash of adding config options in submit script and YARN
ac2d65e [Patrick Wendell] Change spark.local.dir -> SPARK_LOCAL_DIRS
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Apache Spark

Lightning-Fast Cluster Computing - http://spark.apache.org/

Online Documentation

You can find the latest Spark documentation, including a programming guide, on the project webpage at http://spark.apache.org/documentation.html. This README file only contains basic setup instructions.

Building Spark

Spark is built on Scala 2.10. To build Spark and its example programs, run:

./sbt/sbt assembly

Interactive Scala Shell

The easiest way to start using Spark is through the Scala shell:

./bin/spark-shell

Try the following command, which should return 1000:

scala> sc.parallelize(1 to 1000).count()

Interactive Python Shell

Alternatively, if you prefer Python, you can use the Python shell:

./bin/pyspark

And run the following command, which should also return 1000:

>>> sc.parallelize(range(1000)).count()

Example Programs

Spark also comes with several sample programs in the examples directory. To run one of them, use ./bin/run-example <class> <params>. For example:

./bin/run-example org.apache.spark.examples.SparkLR local[2]

will run the Logistic Regression example locally on 2 CPUs.

Each of the example programs prints usage help if no params are given.

All of the Spark samples take a <master> parameter that is the cluster URL to connect to. This can be a mesos:// or spark:// URL, or "local" to run locally with one thread, or "local[N]" to run locally with N threads.

Running Tests

Testing first requires building Spark. Once Spark is built, tests can be run using:

./sbt/sbt test

A Note About Hadoop Versions

Spark uses the Hadoop core library to talk to HDFS and other Hadoop-supported storage systems. Because the protocols have changed in different versions of Hadoop, you must build Spark against the same version that your cluster runs. You can change the version by setting the SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION environment when building Spark.

For Apache Hadoop versions 1.x, Cloudera CDH MRv1, and other Hadoop versions without YARN, use:

# Apache Hadoop 1.2.1
$ SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION=1.2.1 sbt/sbt assembly

# Cloudera CDH 4.2.0 with MapReduce v1
$ SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION=2.0.0-mr1-cdh4.2.0 sbt/sbt assembly

For Apache Hadoop 2.2.X, 2.1.X, 2.0.X, 0.23.x, Cloudera CDH MRv2, and other Hadoop versions with YARN, also set SPARK_YARN=true:

# Apache Hadoop 2.0.5-alpha
$ SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION=2.0.5-alpha SPARK_YARN=true sbt/sbt assembly

# Cloudera CDH 4.2.0 with MapReduce v2
$ SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION=2.0.0-cdh4.2.0 SPARK_YARN=true sbt/sbt assembly

# Apache Hadoop 2.2.X and newer
$ SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION=2.2.0 SPARK_YARN=true sbt/sbt assembly

When developing a Spark application, specify the Hadoop version by adding the "hadoop-client" artifact to your project's dependencies. For example, if you're using Hadoop 1.2.1 and build your application using SBT, add this entry to libraryDependencies:

"org.apache.hadoop" % "hadoop-client" % "1.2.1"

If your project is built with Maven, add this to your POM file's <dependencies> section:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
  <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
  <version>1.2.1</version>
</dependency>

Configuration

Please refer to the Configuration guide in the online documentation for an overview on how to configure Spark.

Contributing to Spark

Contributions via GitHub pull requests are gladly accepted from their original author. Along with any pull requests, please state that the contribution is your original work and that you license the work to the project under the project's open source license. Whether or not you state this explicitly, by submitting any copyrighted material via pull request, email, or other means you agree to license the material under the project's open source license and warrant that you have the legal authority to do so.