Configuring job queues

In this recipe, we will configure the job queue and allow users to submit jobs to the queues. In production, there might be many departments such as marketing, sales, and finance, sharing a cluster of resources and it is important to have the correct shares proportional to business and funding.

In the previous recipe, although the queues were setup, they were still not used. Queues were dynamically created for jobs submitted by specifying a queue. If no queue is specified, jobs are submitted to a queue by the name of the user who submitted the job. We will explore these a bit more in this recipe.

Getting ready

To complete the recipe, the user must have a running cluster with HDFS and YARN configured and must have completed ...

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