@Andres Urrego Regarding the VM failing, is it the services shutting down on their own and not staying up? One common cause of this is not enough memory - to reduce resource usage try turning off all services and starting only HDFS, Zookeeper, YARN and Spark. Also make sure that you give your VM at least 8GB of RAM (https://hortonworks.com/tutorial/sandbox-deployment-and-install-guide shows how). As far as documentation for Spark2/HDFS, here is a good Spark2 starter tutorial followed by a Spark2/HDFS project walkthrough. https://hortonworks.com/tutorial/hands-on-tour-of-apache-spark-in-5-minutes/#option-2-download-and-setup-hortonworks-data-platform-hdp-sandbox https://hortonworks.com/tutorial/sentiment-analysis-with-apache-spark/ ... View more

I'm facing the same issue: HDP 2.6.3 sandbox doesn't start on Ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS running Docker CE 17.12. The updated start script referenced by @Edgar Orendain still hangs while starting Ambari services. This is the line, within the script, having the issue: docker exec -t sandbox-hdp /bin/sh -c 'until /usr/bin/curl --silent --user raj_ops:raj_ops -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" "http://localhost:8080/api/v1/clusters/Sandbox/requests?to=end&page_size=10&fields=Requests" | tail -n 27 | grep COMPLETED | grep COMPLETED > /dev/null; do echo -n .; sleep 1; done;' Any suggestion? Regards, @Julián Rodríguez ... View more