github.com/smintz/nomad@v0.8.3/website/source/guides/spark/spark.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "guides" 3 page_title: "Running Apache Spark on Nomad" 4 sidebar_current: "guides-spark-spark" 5 description: |- 6 Learn how to run Apache Spark on a Nomad cluster. 7 --- 8 9 # Running Apache Spark on Nomad 10 11 Nomad is well-suited for analytical workloads, given its [performance 12 characteristics](https://www.hashicorp.com/c1m/) and first-class support for 13 [batch scheduling](https://www.nomadproject.io/docs/runtime/schedulers.html). 14 Apache Spark is a popular data processing engine/framework that has been 15 architected to use third-party schedulers. The Nomad ecosystem includes a 16 [fork of Apache Spark](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-spark) that natively 17 integrates Nomad as a cluster manager and scheduler for Spark. When running on 18 Nomad, the Spark executors that run Spark tasks for your application, and 19 optionally the application driver itself, run as Nomad tasks in a Nomad job. 20 21 ## Next Steps 22 23 The links in the sidebar contain detailed information about specific aspects of 24 the integration, beginning with [Getting Started](/guides/spark/pre.html).