github.com/ferranbt/nomad@v0.9.3-0.20190607002617-85c449b7667c/website/source/guides/analytical-workloads/spark/index.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "guides" 3 page_title: "Running Apache Spark on Nomad" 4 sidebar_current: "guides-analytical-workloads-spark-intro" 5 description: |- 6 Learn how to run Apache Spark on a Nomad cluster. 7 --- 8 9 # Running Apache Spark on Nomad 10 11 Apache Spark is a popular data processing engine/framework that has been 12 architected to use third-party schedulers. The Nomad ecosystem includes a 13 [fork of Apache Spark](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-spark) that natively 14 integrates Nomad as a cluster manager and scheduler for Spark. When running on 15 Nomad, the Spark executors that run Spark tasks for your application, and 16 optionally the application driver itself, run as Nomad tasks in a Nomad job. 17 18 ## Next Steps 19 20 The links in the sidebar contain detailed information about specific aspects of 21 the integration, beginning with [Getting Started](/guides/analytical-workloads/spark/pre.html).