Installing Spark on Mesos

This section includes instructions to download and install Apache Spark on Apache Mesos.

Prerequisites

The HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric distribution of Spark on Mesos is only certified on CentOS.

About this task

Spark 2.1.0 runs with Apache Mesos 1.0.0 or later. You do not need to apply any special patches of Mesos. If you are already running a Mesos cluster, you can skip this topic.

Procedure

Install Mesos following the instructions at Getting Started with Mesos.
NOTE
If you are building Mesos, execute the build steps as user 'mapr'. Also change the owner of the directory where you have unpacked the Mesos archive to user and group 'mapr'.
cd /path/to/mesos
sudo chown -R mapr:mapr /path/to/mesos