Spot Ocean for Apache Spark by Flexera automates cloud infrastructure and application management for Apache Spark, leveraging Kubernetes to optimize performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency. It allows data teams to focus on building data applications without the complexities of managing cloud infrastructure or debugging Spark issues.

Features

• Serverless Spark-on-Kubernetes: Run big data workloads reliably on optimized infrastructure with an optimal mix of spot, on-demand, and reserved instances.
• Developer-Friendly: Simplifies setup, configuration, maintenance, and scaling of Spark applications and Kubernetes clusters with intuitive UIs, key integrations, and powerful automations.
• Spark-Centric Monitoring and Observability: Track application configurations, logs, Spark UI, and key metrics in live and historical dashboards.
• Spark-Aware Infrastructure Scaling: Automatically scales Kubernetes clusters while maintaining dynamic headroom to ensure applications run instantaneously.
• History-Based Spark Configuration Tuning: Automatically tunes container sizes, number of executors, and Spark configuration flags based on historical performance.
• Cost Tracking: Track cloud costs in real-time, broken down by each user and job.

Benefits

• Cost Savings: Save up to 90% on total costs by running applications on the lowest-cost, highest-performing infrastructure.
• Increased Productivity: Data teams can focus on building data applications rather than managing infrastructure.
• Flexibility: Benefit from an open and flexible containerized architecture without the overhead.
• Reliability: Ensure high performance and reliability for Spark workloads.
• Ease of Use: Simplifies the management of Spark applications and Kubernetes clusters.