A couple options: (1) You can start locally by downloading Spark to your laptop: http://spark.apache.org/downloads.html , then jump into the Quickstart docs: http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/quick-start.html
(2) There is a free Databricks community edition that runs on AWS: https://databricks.com/try-databricks . The databricks docs are publicly available and have tutorial notebooks: https://docs.cloud.databricks.com/docs/latest/databricks_guide/index.html If you want to run it on a several node cluster for bigger data, it's pretty easy through the AWS console to spin up an Elastic MapReduce cluster with Spark pre-installed, but you'll need to sign up for an AWS account. -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Newbie-question-Best-way-to-bootstrap-with-Spark-tp28032p28061.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org
