New tiny GitHub project: https://github.com/mikestaszel/spark_cluster_vagrant

Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on benchmarking Spark as well as learning more about setting up clusters of Spark machines both locally and on cloud providers.

I decided to work on a simple Vagrantfile that spins up a Spark cluster with a head node and however many worker nodes desired. I’ve seen a few of these but they either used some 3rd party box, had an older version of Spark, or only spun up one node.

By running only one command I could have a fully-configured Spark cluster ready to use and test. Vagrant also easily extends beyond simple Virtualbox machines to many providers, including AWS EC2 and DigitalOcean and this Vagrantfile can be extended to provision clusters on those providers.

Check it out here: https://github.com/mikestaszel/spark_cluster_vagrant