I have installed Airflow on a server. I'm able to ping from Airflow server to hadoop cluster. I want to submit a spark job from airflow server to hadoop cluster. Can someone list the steps I need to do for that? Do I need to install spark client on airflow server?
Apache Livy can be utilized to submit spark jobs , take look at following blog post.Spark Job submission via Airflow Operators
The simplest way to go about this is via establishing SSH connectivity between the Airflow server and (the edge node of) the Hadoop cluster. Now,
1. Create a SSH Connection from the Airflow UI (under the admin tab).
2. Use the above created connection in your Airflow pipeline via SSHHook.
3. Compose the spark-submit command.
4. Use the outputs of (2) & (3) in the constructor of SSHOperator.
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I know there is information worth 10 google pages on this but, all of them tell me to just put --master yarn in the spark-submit command. But, in cluster mode, how can my local laptop even know what that means? Let us say I have my laptop and a running dataproc cluster. How can I use spark-submit from my laptop to submit a job to this cluster?
Most of the documentation on running a Spark application in cluster mode assumes that you are already on the same cluster where YARN/Hadoop are configured (e.g. you are ssh'ed in), in which case most of the time Spark will pick up the appropriate local configs and "just work".
This is same for Dataproc: if you ssh onto the Dataproc master node, you can just run spark-submit --master yarn. More detailed instructions can be found in the documentation.
If you are trying to run applications locally on your laptop, this is more difficult. You will need to set up an ssh tunnel to the cluster, and then locally create configuration files that tell Spark how to reach the master via the tunnel.
Alternatively, you can use the Dataproc jobs API to submit jobs to the cluster without having to directly connect. The one caveat is that you will have to use properties to tell Spark to run in cluster mode instead of client mode (--properties spark.submit.deployMode=cluster). Note that when submitting jobs via the Dataproc API, the difference between client and cluster mode is much less pressing because in either case the Spark driver will actually run on the cluster (on the master or a worker respectively), not on your local laptop.
I want to use Airflow for orchestration of jobs that includes running some pig scripts, shell scripts and spark jobs.
Mainly on Spark jobs, I want to use Apache Livy but not sure whether it is good idea to use or run spark-submit.
What is best way to track Spark job using Airflow if even I submitted?
My assumption is you an application JAR containing Java / Scala code that you want to submit to remote Spark cluster. Livy is arguably the best option for remote spark-submit when evaluated against other possibilities:
Specifying remote master IP: Requires modifying global configurations / environment variables
Using SSHOperator: SSH connection might break
Using EmrAddStepsOperator: Dependent on EMR
Regarding tracking
Livy only reports state and not progress (% completion of stages)
If your'e OK with that, you can just poll the Livy server via REST API and keep printing logs in console, those will appear on task logs in WebUI (View Logs)
Other considerations
Livy doesn't support reusing SparkSession for POST/batches request
If that's imperative, you'll have to write your application code in PySpark and use POST/session requests
References
How to submit Spark jobs to EMR cluster from Airflow?
livy/examples/pi_app
rssanders3/livy_spark_operator_python_example
Useful links
How to submit Spark jobs to EMR cluster from Airflow?
Remote spark-submit to YARN running on EMR
We have a requirement to schedule spark jobs, since we are familiar with apache-airflow we want to go ahead with it to create different workflows. I searched web but did not find a step by step guide to schedule spark job on airflow and option to run them on different server running master.
Answer to this will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
There are 3 ways you can submit Spark jobs using Apache Airflow remotely:
(1) Using SparkSubmitOperator: This operator expects you have a spark-submit binary and YARN client config setup on our Airflow server. It invokes the spark-submit command with given options, blocks until the job finishes and returns the final status. The good thing is, it also streams the logs from the spark-submit command stdout and stderr.
You really only need to configure a yarn-site.xml file, I believe, in order for spark-submit --master yarn --deploy-mode client to work.
Once an Application Master is deployed within YARN, then Spark is running locally to the Hadoop cluster.
If you really want, you could add a hdfs-site.xml and hive-site.xml to be submitted as well from Airflow (if that's possible), but otherwise at least hdfs-site.xml files should be picked up from the YARN container classpath
(2) Using SSHOperator: Use this operator to run bash commands on a remote server (using SSH protocol via paramiko library) like spark-submit. The benefit of this approach is you don't need to copy the hdfs-site.xml or maintain any file.
(3) Using SimpleHTTPOperator with Livy: Livy is an open source REST interface for interacting with Apache Spark from anywhere. You just need to have REST calls.
I personally prefer SSHOperator :)
Scenario :
I have spark cluster and I also want to use Livy.
I am new about Livy
Problem :
I built
my spark cluster by using docker swarm and I will also create a
service for Livy.
Can Livy communicate with external spark master and
send a job to external spark master? If it is ok, which configuration
need to be done? Or Livy should be installed on spark master node?
I think is a little late, but I hope this help you.
sorry for my english, but I am mexican, you can use docker to send jobs via livy, but also you can use livy to send jobs throw Livy REST API.
The livy server can be outside of the spark cluster, you only need to send a conf file to livy that points to you spark cluster.
It looks you are running spark standalone, easist way to configure livy to work is that livy lives on spark master node, if you already have YARN on your cluster machines, you can install livy on any node and run spark application in yarn-cluster or yarn-client mode.
I'm trying to figure out which is the best way to work with Airflow and Spark/Hadoop.
I already have a Spark/Hadoop cluster and I'm thinking about creating another cluster for Airflow that will submit jobs remotely to Spark/Hadoop cluster.
Any advice about it? Looks like it's a little complicated to deploy spark remotely from another cluster and that will create some file configuration duplication.
You really only need to configure a yarn-site.xml file, I believe, in order for spark-submit --master yarn --deploy-mode client to work. (You could try cluster deploy mode, but I think having the driver being managed by Airflow isn't a bad idea)
Once an Application Master is deployed within YARN, then Spark is running locally to the Hadoop cluster.
If you really want, you could add a hdfs-site.xml and hive-site.xml to be submitted as well from Airflow (if that's possible), but otherwise at least hdfs-site.xml files should be picked up from the YARN container classpath (not all NodeManagers could have a Hive client installed on them)
I prefer submitting Spark Jobs using SSHOperator and running spark-submit command which would save you from copy/pasting yarn-site.xml. Also, I would not create a cluster for Airflow if the only task that I perform is running Spark jobs, a single VM with LocalExecutor should be fine.
There are a variety of options for remotely performing spark-submit via Airflow.
Emr-Step
Apache-Livy (see this for hint)
SSH
Do note that none of these are plug-and-play ready and you'll have to write your own operators to get things done.