Hi,

we use ‘Airflow'  as our job workflow scheduler.




> On Nov 19, 2015, at 9:47 AM, Vikram Kone <vikramk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nick,
> Quick question about spark-submit command executed from azkaban with command 
> job type.
> I see that when I press kill in azkaban portal on a spark-submit job, it 
> doesn't actually kill the application on spark master and it continues to run 
> even though azkaban thinks that it's killed.
> How do you get around this? Is there a way to kill the spark-submit jobs from 
> azkaban portal?
> 
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Nick Pentreath <nick.pentre...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:nick.pentre...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Vikram,
> 
> We use Azkaban (2.5.0) in our production workflow scheduling. We just use 
> local mode deployment and it is fairly easy to set up. It is pretty easy to 
> use and has a nice scheduling and logging interface, as well as SLAs (like 
> kill job and notify if it doesn't complete in 3 hours or whatever). 
> 
> However Spark support is not present directly - we run everything with shell 
> scripts and spark-submit. There is a plugin interface where one could create 
> a Spark plugin, but I found it very cumbersome when I did investigate and 
> didn't have the time to work through it to develop that.
> 
> It has some quirks and while there is actually a REST API for adding jos and 
> dynamically scheduling jobs, it is not documented anywhere so you kinda have 
> to figure it out for yourself. But in terms of ease of use I found it way 
> better than Oozie. I haven't tried Chronos, and it seemed quite involved to 
> set up. Haven't tried Luigi either.
> 
> Spark job server is good but as you say lacks some stuff like scheduling and 
> DAG type workflows (independent of spark-defined job flows).
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Jörn Franke <jornfra...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:jornfra...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Check also falcon in combination with oozie
> 
> Le ven. 7 août 2015 à 17:51, Hien Luu <h...@linkedin.com.invalid> a écrit :
> Looks like Oozie can satisfy most of your requirements. 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Vikram Kone <vikramk...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:vikramk...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for open source workflow tools/engines that allow us to schedule 
> spark jobs on a datastax cassandra cluster. Since there are tonnes of 
> alternatives out there like Ozzie, Azkaban, Luigi , Chronos etc, I wanted to 
> check with people here to see what they are using today.
> 
> Some of the requirements of the workflow engine that I'm looking for are
> 
> 1. First class support for submitting Spark jobs on Cassandra. Not some 
> wrapper Java code to submit tasks.
> 2. Active open source community support and well tested at production scale.
> 3. Should be dead easy to write job dependencices using XML or web interface 
> . Ex; job A depends on Job B and Job C, so run Job A after B and C are 
> finished. Don't need to write full blown java applications to specify job 
> parameters and dependencies. Should be very simple to use.
> 4. Time based  recurrent scheduling. Run the spark jobs at a given time every 
> hour or day or week or month.
> 5. Job monitoring, alerting on failures and email notifications on daily 
> basis.
> 
> I have looked at Ooyala's spark job server which seems to be hated towards 
> making spark jobs run faster by sharing contexts between the jobs but isn't a 
> full blown workflow engine per se. A combination of spark job server and 
> workflow engine would be ideal 
> 
> Thanks for the inputs
> 
> 
> 

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