Is sharing spark RDD or context a supported in HDP 2.5?

[#1]

Is sharing spark RDD or context a supported in HDP 2.5 via livy server? Everything I see is via zeppelin interrupter to livy. I want to know if strictly using spark is sharing spark (not zeppelin) RDD or context supported.

[#2]

Livy is not "hidden". If you have started the Livy server, you can interact with its REST API from any application.

[#3]

@Randy Gelhausen

Yes. With HDP 2.5. I missed that memo. Before that was "Installed as Spark Ambari Service, not yet exposed outside of Zeppelin". The following was needed: https://github.com/hortonworks-gallery/ambari-zeppelin-service

[#4]

Just to close this out as i was able to get info required. Sharing RDD and context outside of zeppelin is not supported.

[#5]

@Sunile Manjee

As I mentioned in my original response: Not without Livy. Yes with Livy (@vshukla). However, it is exposed only to Zeppelin, for now.