The convention for standalone cluster is to use Zookeeper to manage master failover.
http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-standalone.html Dean Wampler, Ph.D. Author: Programming Scala, 2nd Edition <http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033073.do> (O'Reilly) Typesafe <http://typesafe.com> @deanwampler <http://twitter.com/deanwampler> http://polyglotprogramming.com On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:01 AM, James King <jakwebin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to find out how to setup a resilient Spark cluster. > > Things I'm thinking about include: > > - How to start multiple masters on different hosts? > - there isn't a conf/masters file from what I can see > > > Thank you. >