How to get connected to an existing session of Spark

Question

I installed spark (spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7) locally with success.

Running spark from terminal was successful through the command below:

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Answer 1

It is not possible using plain Spark only. You can use:

• Apache Zeppelin.
• Livy.

Both support shared context, each in its own way.

Also master and driver are two completely different things.