You can keep the jar at container level.   1. Connect your container through WinSCP. Mostly SFTP 127.0.0.1:2222 root/<password> 2. You will see root. You can create a directory ex. mrbuild. then place the jar there. 3. Run the job yarn jar mrbuild/mrapp1.jar VoteCountApplication /user/root/input /user/root/output   I hope it will help. ... View more