https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Difference-between-local-vs-yarn-cluster-vs-yarn-client-for/m-p/161247#M123626 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/16684/faisalrahamed.html" nodeid="16684">@Faisal R Ahamed</A>, You should use spark-submit to run this application. While running application specify --master yarn and --deploy-mode cluster. Specifying to spark conf is too late to switch to yarn-cluster mode.</P><P>spark-submit --class &lt;clasname&gt; --master yarn --deploy-mode cluster &lt;jars&gt; &lt;args&gt;</P><P><A href="https://www.mail-archive.com/user@spark.apache.org/msg57869.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/user@spark.apache.org/msg57869.html</A></P> Fri, 17 Mar 2017 04:09:02 GMT yvora 2017-03-17T04:09:02Z