Installing and Configuring Spark

In this chapter, we will cover how to install and configure Spark, either as a local instance, a multi-node cluster, or in a virtual environment. You will learn the following recipes:

• Installing Spark requirements
• Installing Spark from sources
• Installing Spark from binaries
• Configuring a local instance of Spark
• Configuring a multi-node instance of Spark
• Installing Jupyter
• Configuring a session in Jupyter
• Working with Cloudera Spark images