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Support for running on [YARN (Hadoop
NextGen)](http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html)
was added to Spark in version 0.6.0, and improved in subsequent releases.

# Launching Spark on YARN

Ensure that `HADOOP_CONF_DIR` or `YARN_CONF_DIR` points to the directory which contains the (client side) configuration files for the Hadoop cluster.
These configs are used to write to HDFS and connect to the YARN ResourceManager. The
configuration contained in this directory will be distributed to the YARN cluster so that all
containers used by the application use the same configuration. If the configuration references
Java system properties or environment variables not managed by YARN, they should also be set in the
Spark application's configuration (driver, executors, and the AM when running in client mode).

There are two deploy modes that can be used to launch Spark applications on YARN. In `cluster` mode, the Spark driver runs inside an application master process which is managed by YARN on the cluster, and the client can go away after initiating the application. In `client` mode, the driver runs in the client process, and the application master is only used for requesting resources from YARN.

Unlike [Spark standalone](spark-standalone.html) and [Mesos](running-on-mesos.html) modes, in which the master's address is specified in the `--master` parameter, in YARN mode the ResourceManager's address is picked up from the Hadoop configuration. Thus, the `--master` parameter is `yarn`.

To launch a Spark application in `cluster` mode:

    $ ./bin/spark-submit --class path.to.your.Class --master yarn --deploy-mode cluster [options] <app jar> [app options]

For example:

    $ ./bin/spark-submit --class org.apache.spark.examples.SparkPi \
        --master yarn \
        --deploy-mode cluster \
        --driver-memory 4g \
        --executor-memory 2g \
        --executor-cores 1 \
        --queue thequeue \
        lib/spark-examples*.jar \
        10

The above starts a YARN client program which starts the default Application Master. Then SparkPi will be run as a child thread of Application Master. The client will periodically poll the Application Master for status updates and display them in the console. The client will exit once your application has finished running.  Refer to the "Debugging your Application" section below for how to see driver and executor logs.

To launch a Spark application in `client` mode, do the same, but replace `cluster` with `client`. The following shows how you can run `spark-shell` in `client` mode:

    $ ./bin/spark-shell --master yarn --deploy-mode client

## Adding Other JARs

In `cluster` mode, the driver runs on a different machine than the client, so `SparkContext.addJar` won't work out of the box with files that are local to the client. To make files on the client available to `SparkContext.addJar`, include them with the `--jars` option in the launch command.

    $ ./bin/spark-submit --class my.main.Class \
        --master yarn \
        --deploy-mode cluster \
        --jars my-other-jar.jar,my-other-other-jar.jar \
        my-main-jar.jar \
        app_arg1 app_arg2


# Preparations

Running Spark on YARN requires a binary distribution of Spark which is built with YARN support.
Binary distributions can be downloaded from the [downloads page](http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html) of the project website.
To build Spark yourself, refer to [Building Spark](building-spark.html).

# Configuration

Most of the configs are the same for Spark on YARN as for other deployment modes. See the [configuration page](configuration.html) for more information on those.  These are configs that are specific to Spark on YARN.

# Debugging your Application

In YARN terminology, executors and application masters run inside "containers". YARN has two modes for handling container logs after an application has completed. If log aggregation is turned on (with the `yarn.log-aggregation-enable` config), container logs are copied to HDFS and deleted on the local machine. These logs can be viewed from anywhere on the cluster with the `yarn logs` command.

    yarn logs -applicationId <app ID>

will print out the contents of all log files from all containers from the given application. You can also view the container log files directly in HDFS using the HDFS shell or API. The directory where they are located can be found by looking at your YARN configs (`yarn.nodemanager.remote-app-log-dir` and `yarn.nodemanager.remote-app-log-dir-suffix`). The logs are also available on the Spark Web UI under the Executors Tab. You need to have both the Spark history server and the MapReduce history server running and configure `yarn.log.server.url` in `yarn-site.xml` properly. The log URL on the Spark history server UI will redirect you to the MapReduce history server to show the aggregated logs.

When log aggregation isn't turned on, logs are retained locally on each machine under `YARN_APP_LOGS_DIR`, which is usually configured to `/tmp/logs` or `$HADOOP_HOME/logs/userlogs` depending on the Hadoop version and installation. Viewing logs for a container requires going to the host that contains them and looking in this directory.  Subdirectories organize log files by application ID and container ID. The logs are also available on the Spark Web UI under the Executors Tab and doesn't require running the MapReduce history server.

To review per-container launch environment, increase `yarn.nodemanager.delete.debug-delay-sec` to a
large value (e.g. `36000`), and then access the application cache through `yarn.nodemanager.local-dirs`
on the nodes on which containers are launched. This directory contains the launch script, JARs, and
all environment variables used for launching each container. This process is useful for debugging
classpath problems in particular. (Note that enabling this requires admin privileges on cluster
settings and a restart of all node managers. Thus, this is not applicable to hosted clusters).

To use a custom log4j configuration for the application master or executors, here are the options:

- upload a custom `log4j.properties` using `spark-submit`, by adding it to the `--files` list of files
  to be uploaded with the application.
- add `-Dlog4j.configuration=<location of configuration file>` to `spark.driver.extraJavaOptions`
  (for the driver) or `spark.executor.extraJavaOptions` (for executors). Note that if using a file,
  the `file:` protocol should be explicitly provided, and the file needs to exist locally on all
  the nodes.
- update the `$SPARK_CONF_DIR/log4j.properties` file and it will be automatically uploaded along
  with the other configurations. Note that other 2 options has higher priority than this option if
  multiple options are specified.

Note that for the first option, both executors and the application master will share the same
log4j configuration, which may cause issues when they run on the same node (e.g. trying to write
to the same log file).

If you need a reference to the proper location to put log files in the YARN so that YARN can properly display and aggregate them, use `spark.yarn.app.container.log.dir` in your `log4j.properties`. For example, `log4j.appender.file_appender.File=${spark.yarn.app.container.log.dir}/spark.log`. For streaming applications, configuring `RollingFileAppender` and setting file location to YARN's log directory will avoid disk overflow caused by large log files, and logs can be accessed using YARN's log utility.

#### Spark Properties

<table class="table">
<tr><th>Property Name</th><th>Default</th><th>Meaning</th></tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.am.memory</code></td>
  <td><code>512m</code></td>
  <td>
    Amount of memory to use for the YARN Application Master in client mode, in the same format as JVM memory strings (e.g. <code>512m</code>, <code>2g</code>).
    In cluster mode, use <code>spark.driver.memory</code> instead.
    <p/>
    Use lower-case suffixes, e.g. <code>k</code>, <code>m</code>, <code>g</code>, <code>t</code>, and <code>p</code>, for kibi-, mebi-, gibi-, tebi-, and pebibytes, respectively.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.driver.memory</code></td>
  <td>1g</td>
  <td>
    Amount of memory to use for the driver process, i.e. where SparkContext is initialized.
    (e.g. <code>1g</code>, <code>2g</code>).

    <br /><em>Note:</em> In client mode, this config must not be set through the <code>SparkConf</code>
    directly in your application, because the driver JVM has already started at that point.
    Instead, please set this through the <code>--driver-memory</code> command line option
    or in your default properties file.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.driver.cores</code></td>
  <td><code>1</code></td>
  <td>
    Number of cores used by the driver in YARN cluster mode.
    Since the driver is run in the same JVM as the YARN Application Master in cluster mode, this also controls the cores used by the YARN Application Master.
    In client mode, use <code>spark.yarn.am.cores</code> to control the number of cores used by the YARN Application Master instead.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.am.cores</code></td>
  <td><code>1</code></td>
  <td>
    Number of cores to use for the YARN Application Master in client mode.
    In cluster mode, use <code>spark.driver.cores</code> instead.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.am.waitTime</code></td>
  <td><code>100s</code></td>
  <td>
    In <code>cluster</code> mode, time for the YARN Application Master to wait for the
    SparkContext to be initialized. In <code>client</code> mode, time for the YARN Application Master to wait
    for the driver to connect to it.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.submit.file.replication</code></td>
  <td>The default HDFS replication (usually <code>3</code>)</td>
  <td>
    HDFS replication level for the files uploaded into HDFS for the application. These include things like the Spark jar, the app jar, and any distributed cache files/archives.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.stagingDir</code></td>
  <td>Current user's home directory in the filesystem</td>
  <td>
    Staging directory used while submitting applications.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.preserve.staging.files</code></td>
  <td><code>false</code></td>
  <td>
    Set to <code>true</code> to preserve the staged files (Spark jar, app jar, distributed cache files) at the end of the job rather than delete them.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.scheduler.heartbeat.interval-ms</code></td>
  <td><code>3000</code></td>
  <td>
    The interval in ms in which the Spark application master heartbeats into the YARN ResourceManager.
    The value is capped at half the value of YARN's configuration for the expiry interval, i.e.
    <code>yarn.am.liveness-monitor.expiry-interval-ms</code>.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.scheduler.initial-allocation.interval</code></td>
  <td><code>200ms</code></td>
  <td>
    The initial interval in which the Spark application master eagerly heartbeats to the YARN ResourceManager
    when there are pending container allocation requests. It should be no larger than
    <code>spark.yarn.scheduler.heartbeat.interval-ms</code>. The allocation interval will doubled on
    successive eager heartbeats if pending containers still exist, until
    <code>spark.yarn.scheduler.heartbeat.interval-ms</code> is reached.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.max.executor.failures</code></td>
  <td>numExecutors * 2, with minimum of 3</td>
  <td>
    The maximum number of executor failures before failing the application.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.historyServer.address</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
    The address of the Spark history server, e.g. <code>host.com:18080</code>. The address should not contain a scheme (<code>http://</code>). Defaults to not being set since the history server is an optional service. This address is given to the YARN ResourceManager when the Spark application finishes to link the application from the ResourceManager UI to the Spark history server UI.
    For this property, YARN properties can be used as variables, and these are substituted by Spark at runtime. For example, if the Spark history server runs on the same node as the YARN ResourceManager, it can be set to <code>${hadoopconf-yarn.resourcemanager.hostname}:18080</code>.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.dist.archives</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
    Comma separated list of archives to be extracted into the working directory of each executor.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.dist.files</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
    Comma-separated list of files to be placed in the working directory of each executor.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.dist.jars</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
    Comma-separated list of jars to be placed in the working directory of each executor.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.executor.cores</code></td>
  <td>1 in YARN mode, all the available cores on the worker in standalone mode.</td>
  <td>
    The number of cores to use on each executor. For YARN and standalone mode only.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td><code>spark.executor.instances</code></td>
  <td><code>2</code></td>
  <td>
    The number of executors. Note that this property is incompatible with <code>spark.dynamicAllocation.enabled</code>. If both <code>spark.dynamicAllocation.enabled</code> and <code>spark.executor.instances</code> are specified, dynamic allocation is turned off and the specified number of <code>spark.executor.instances</code> is used.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.executor.memory</code></td>
  <td>1g</td>
  <td>
    Amount of memory to use per executor process (e.g. <code>2g</code>, <code>8g</code>).
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td><code>spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead</code></td>
  <td>executorMemory * 0.10, with minimum of 384 </td>
  <td>
    The amount of off-heap memory (in megabytes) to be allocated per executor. This is memory that accounts for things like VM overheads, interned strings, other native overheads, etc. This tends to grow with the executor size (typically 6-10%).
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.driver.memoryOverhead</code></td>
  <td>driverMemory * 0.10, with minimum of 384 </td>
  <td>
    The amount of off-heap memory (in megabytes) to be allocated per driver in cluster mode. This is memory that accounts for things like VM overheads, interned strings, other native overheads, etc. This tends to grow with the container size (typically 6-10%).
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.am.memoryOverhead</code></td>
  <td>AM memory * 0.10, with minimum of 384 </td>
  <td>
    Same as <code>spark.yarn.driver.memoryOverhead</code>, but for the YARN Application Master in client mode.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.am.port</code></td>
  <td>(random)</td>
  <td>
    Port for the YARN Application Master to listen on. In YARN client mode, this is used to communicate between the Spark driver running on a gateway and the YARN Application Master running on YARN. In YARN cluster mode, this is used for the dynamic executor feature, where it handles the kill from the scheduler backend.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.queue</code></td>
  <td><code>default</code></td>
  <td>
    The name of the YARN queue to which the application is submitted.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.jars</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
    List of libraries containing Spark code to distribute to YARN containers.
    By default, Spark on YARN will use Spark jars installed locally, but the Spark jars can also be
    in a world-readable location on HDFS. This allows YARN to cache it on nodes so that it doesn't
    need to be distributed each time an application runs. To point to jars on HDFS, for example,
    set this configuration to <code>hdfs:///some/path</code>. Globs are allowed.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.archive</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
    An archive containing needed Spark jars for distribution to the YARN cache. If set, this
    configuration replaces <code>spark.yarn.jars</code> and the archive is used in all the
    application's containers. The archive should contain jar files in its root directory.
    Like with the previous option, the archive can also be hosted on HDFS to speed up file
    distribution.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.access.namenodes</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
    A comma-separated list of secure HDFS namenodes your Spark application is going to access. For
    example, <code>spark.yarn.access.namenodes=hdfs://nn1.com:8032,hdfs://nn2.com:8032,
    webhdfs://nn3.com:50070</code>. The Spark application must have access to the namenodes listed
    and Kerberos must be properly configured to be able to access them (either in the same realm
    or in a trusted realm). Spark acquires security tokens for each of the namenodes so that
    the Spark application can access those remote HDFS clusters.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.appMasterEnv.[EnvironmentVariableName]</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
     Add the environment variable specified by <code>EnvironmentVariableName</code> to the
     Application Master process launched on YARN. The user can specify multiple of
     these and to set multiple environment variables. In <code>cluster</code> mode this controls
     the environment of the Spark driver and in <code>client</code> mode it only controls
     the environment of the executor launcher.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.containerLauncherMaxThreads</code></td>
  <td><code>25</code></td>
  <td>
    The maximum number of threads to use in the YARN Application Master for launching executor containers.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.am.extraJavaOptions</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
  A string of extra JVM options to pass to the YARN Application Master in client mode.
  In cluster mode, use <code>spark.driver.extraJavaOptions</code> instead. Note that it is illegal
  to set maximum heap size (-Xmx) settings with this option. Maximum heap size settings can be set
  with <code>spark.yarn.am.memory</code>
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.am.extraLibraryPath</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
    Set a special library path to use when launching the YARN Application Master in client mode.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.maxAppAttempts</code></td>
  <td><code>yarn.resourcemanager.am.max-attempts</code> in YARN</td>
  <td>
  The maximum number of attempts that will be made to submit the application.
  It should be no larger than the global number of max attempts in the YARN configuration.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.am.attemptFailuresValidityInterval</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
  Defines the validity interval for AM failure tracking.
  If the AM has been running for at least the defined interval, the AM failure count will be reset.
  This feature is not enabled if not configured, and only supported in Hadoop 2.6+.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.submit.waitAppCompletion</code></td>
  <td><code>true</code></td>
  <td>
  In YARN cluster mode, controls whether the client waits to exit until the application completes.
  If set to <code>true</code>, the client process will stay alive reporting the application's status.
  Otherwise, the client process will exit after submission.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.am.nodeLabelExpression</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
  A YARN node label expression that restricts the set of nodes AM will be scheduled on.
  Only versions of YARN greater than or equal to 2.6 support node label expressions, so when
  running against earlier versions, this property will be ignored.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.executor.nodeLabelExpression</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
  A YARN node label expression that restricts the set of nodes executors will be scheduled on.
  Only versions of YARN greater than or equal to 2.6 support node label expressions, so when
  running against earlier versions, this property will be ignored.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.tags</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
  Comma-separated list of strings to pass through as YARN application tags appearing
  in YARN ApplicationReports, which can be used for filtering when querying YARN apps.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.keytab</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
  The full path to the file that contains the keytab for the principal specified above.
  This keytab will be copied to the node running the YARN Application Master via the Secure Distributed Cache,
  for renewing the login tickets and the delegation tokens periodically. (Works also with the "local" master)
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.principal</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
  Principal to be used to login to KDC, while running on secure HDFS. (Works also with the "local" master)
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.config.gatewayPath</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
  A path that is valid on the gateway host (the host where a Spark application is started) but may
  differ for paths for the same resource in other nodes in the cluster. Coupled with
  <code>spark.yarn.config.replacementPath</code>, this is used to support clusters with
  heterogeneous configurations, so that Spark can correctly launch remote processes.
  <p/>
  The replacement path normally will contain a reference to some environment variable exported by
  YARN (and, thus, visible to Spark containers).
  <p/>
  For example, if the gateway node has Hadoop libraries installed on <code>/disk1/hadoop</code>, and
  the location of the Hadoop install is exported by YARN as the  <code>HADOOP_HOME</code>
  environment variable, setting this value to <code>/disk1/hadoop</code> and the replacement path to
  <code>$HADOOP_HOME</code> will make sure that paths used to launch remote processes properly
  reference the local YARN configuration.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.config.replacementPath</code></td>
  <td>(none)</td>
  <td>
  See <code>spark.yarn.config.gatewayPath</code>.
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><code>spark.yarn.security.tokens.${service}.enabled</code></td>
  <td><code>true</code></td>
  <td>
  Controls whether to retrieve delegation tokens for non-HDFS services when security is enabled.
  By default, delegation tokens for all supported services are retrieved when those services are
  configured, but it's possible to disable that behavior if it somehow conflicts with the
  application being run.
  <p/>
  Currently supported services are: <code>hive</code>, <code>hbase</code>
  </td>
</tr>
</table>

# Important notes

- Whether core requests are honored in scheduling decisions depends on which scheduler is in use and how it is configured.
- In `cluster` mode, the local directories used by the Spark executors and the Spark driver will be the local directories configured for YARN (Hadoop YARN config `yarn.nodemanager.local-dirs`). If the user specifies `spark.local.dir`, it will be ignored. In `client` mode, the Spark executors will use the local directories configured for YARN while the Spark driver will use those defined in `spark.local.dir`. This is because the Spark driver does not run on the YARN cluster in `client` mode, only the Spark executors do.
- The `--files` and `--archives` options support specifying file names with the # similar to Hadoop. For example you can specify: `--files localtest.txt#appSees.txt` and this will upload the file you have locally named `localtest.txt` into HDFS but this will be linked to by the name `appSees.txt`, and your application should use the name as `appSees.txt` to reference it when running on YARN.
- The `--jars` option allows the `SparkContext.addJar` function to work if you are using it with local files and running in `cluster` mode. It does not need to be used if you are using it with HDFS, HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP files.