Installing Spark on Mesos

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

The MapR distribution of Spark on Mesos is only certified on CentOS.

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.

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