We got it working by adding a tag to centos image with below commands: docker tag centos local/centos Here is the modified distributed shell command to run: yarn jar $DJAR -shell_env YARN_CONTAINER_RUNTIME_TYPE=docker -shell_env YARN_CONTAINER_RUNTIME_DOCKER_IMAGE=local/centos -shell_command "sleep 120"-jar $DJAR -num_containers 1 Note - For multi-node cluster, you will have to run docker tag command on every node manager as root user. Please also make sure that you have added "local" registry as trusted registry in yarn configurations. Hope this helps! Special thanks to @rmaruthiyodan ... View more