Chapter 1. Getting Started with Apache Spark

In this chapter, we will set up Spark and configure it. This chapter is pided into the following recipes:

• Installing Spark from binaries
• Building the Spark source code with Maven
• Launching Spark on Amazon EC2
• Deploying Spark on a cluster in standalone mode
• Deploying Spark on a cluster with Mesos
• Deploying Spark on a cluster with YARN
• Using Tachyon as an off-heap storage layer