How to install Spark 1.2 on Azure HDInsight clusters by Maxim Lukiyanov.
From the post:
Today we are pleased to announce the refresh of the Apache Spark support on Azure HDInsight clusters. Spark is available on HDInsight through custom script action and today we are updating it to support the latest version of Spark 1.2. The previous version supported version 1.0. This update also adds Spark SQL support to the package.
Spark 1.2 script action requires latest version of HDInsight clusters 3.2. Older HDInsight clusters will get previous version of Spark 1.0 when customized with Spark script action.
Follow the below steps to create Spark cluster using Azure Portal:
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The only remaining questions are: How good are you with Spark? and How big of a Spark cluster do you neeed? (or can afford).
Enjoy!