In this chapter, we will set up Spark and configure it. This chapter contains the following recipes:

• Leveraging Databricks Cloud
• Deploying Spark using Amazon EMR
• Installing Spark from binaries
• Building the Spark source code with Maven
• Launching Spark on Amazon EC2
• Deploying Spark on a cluster in standalone mode
• Deploying Spark on a cluster with Mesos
• Deploying Spark on a cluster with YARN
• Understanding SparkContext and SparkSession
• Understanding Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDD)