Global Variables in Zeppelin Notebook

bandarusridhar1 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:28:14 GMT

Hi Team,

Is there any way I can define global variable in Zeppelin notebook in a paragraph which then could drive other paragraphs like how we do in jupyter notes for Spark/Python?

If yes, can someone share sample example?

I'm using Zeppelin Version 0.7.0 and Spark2.

Any help is highly appreciated and thanks in advance.

Re: Global Variables in Zeppelin Notebook

kbadani — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:44:40 GMT

@Sridhar Reddy

Since Spark2 interpreter is in globally shared mode, there is only one Spark2 session (i.e. Spark2 context) shared between all users and all notebooks in zeppelin. A variable defined in one paragraph of one notebook maybe accessed freely in other paragraphs of the same notebook, and for that matter paragraphs of other notebooks as well.

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