Deploying Apache Spark Jobs on Kubernetes with Helm and Spark Operator

Tom Lous
12 min readJan 1, 2020
Hazel Glass https://portlandopenstudios.com/artists/2019-artists/hazel-glass.html
Art by: Hazel Glass

For each challenge there are many technology stacks that can provide the solution. I’m not claiming this approach is the holy grail of data processing, but this more the tale of my quest to combine these widely supported tools in a maintainable fashion.

From the onset I’ve always tried to generate as much configuration as possible, mainly…

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Tom Lous

Freelance Data & ML Engineer | husband + father of 2 | #Spark #Scala #ZIO#BigData #ML #Kafka #Airflow #Kubernetes | Shodan Aikido