*Project Description: *Kubernetes cluster manager integration that enables native support for submitting Spark applications to a kubernetes cluster. The submitted applications can make use of Kubernetes native constructs.
*JIRA*: 18278 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18278> *Upstream Kubernetes Issue*: 34377 <https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/34377> *Summary of activity in the last 2 weeks*: - PySpark support being added by ifilolenko (Bloomberg) - HDFS locality fixes by kimoonkim (PepperData) - Minor bug fixes and performance improvement (Tencent) - Planning of work around Spark and HDFS on Kubernetes for Q3 2017 - Weekly meeting notes and discussions (link <https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1pnF38NF6N5eM8DlK088XUW85Vms4V2uTsGZvSp8MNIA/edit> ) *Recent talks and updates*: - Spark on Kubernetes (Spark Summit 2017) - link <https://spark-summit.org/2017/events/apache-spark-on-kubernetes/> - HDFS on Kubernetes - Lessons Learned (Spark Summit 2017) - link <https://spark-summit.org/2017/events/hdfs-on-kubernetes-lessons-learned/> For more details and to contribute to our discussions/efforts, please attend our weekly public meeting, or join our slack/mailing list. (link <https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-big-data>)