We’re super excited to announce that we have shipped the first release of our solution for big data – Charmed Spark. Charmed Spark packages a supported distribution of Apache Spark and optimises it for deployment to Kubernetes, which is where most of the industry is moving these days.
Reimagining how to work with big data
Having the opportunity to rethink how big data is processed meant that we could challenge the status-quo based on the more traditional Hadoop YARN stack. And with our Charmed Kubernetes and MicroK8s systems, we have a greatly simplified, yet powerful family of cluster managers to enable full stack deployment of big data clusters and a consistent user-experience across local, on-premises and cloud environments. Of course, you’re not limited to our Kubernetes distributions – you can use Charmed Spark on other conformant Kubernetes – for example AWS EKS.
And reimagining big data storage too
For storage we chose S3 API-compliant Ceph instead of Hadoop…