It fulfills a few different functions. The main one is giving users a way to inject Spark as a runtime dependency separately from their program and make sure they get exactly the right version of Spark. So a user can bundle an application and then use spark-submit to send it to different types of clusters (or using different versions of Spark).
It also unifies the way you bundle and submit an app for Yarn, Mesos, etc... this was something that became very fragmented over time before this was added. Another feature is allowing users to set configuration values dynamically rather than compile them inside of their program. That's the one you mention here. You can choose to use this feature or not. If you know your configs are not going to change, then you don't need to set them with spark-submit. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Robert James <srobertja...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the purpose of spark-submit? Does it do anything outside of > the standard val conf = new SparkConf ... val sc = new SparkContext > ... ?
