--- title: Charmed Spark beta release is out – try it today description: The Canonical Data Fabric team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Charmed Spark, our solution for Apache Spark. url: https://canonical.com/blog/charmed-spark-beta-release?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Rob Gibbon](https://canonical.com/blog/author/robgibbon "More about Rob Gibbon") 3 July 2023 # Charmed Spark beta release is out – try it today [apache spark](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/apache-spark) [Big Data](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/big-data) [charmed spark](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/charmed-spark) [data fabric](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/data-fabric) --- Share the article Charmed Spark 3 beta – out now The Canonical Data Fabric team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Charmed Spark, our solution for Apache Spark. [Apache Spark](https://spark.apache.org) is a free, open source software framework for developing distributed, parallel processing jobs. It’s popular with data engineers and data scientists alike when building data pipelines for both batch and continuous data processing at scale. Engineers can write Python or Scala code to develop Spark jobs for ETL (extract-transform-load), analytics and machine learning. Canonical is building a supported, packaged solution for running Spark jobs on Kubernetes. The preview release is the first milestone towards building a comprehensive solution for Spark users. The beta release includes features for: * Submitting jobs to the cluster * Managing job configuration * Security maintained container images * A software operator to deploy and operate the Spark History Server Charmed Spark is a part of Canonical Data Fabric, a set of solutions for data processing, with additional solutions to be announced. ## Charmed Spack reference architecture Users can deploy Charmed Spark to MicroK8s, Charmed Kubernetes and AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Read the reference architecture guide: [Charmed Spark 3 release 1 reference architecture guide](https://ubuntu.com/engage/spark-reference-architecture-for-big-data) ## Share your feedback At Canonical, we always value the community’s feedback about our products. We would like to ask you to try out Canonical’s Charmed Spark and send us your comments, bug reports and general feedback so we can include them in our future releases. To get started, head over to the [Charmed Spark documentation pages](https://discourse.charmhub.io/t/charmed-spark-documentation/8963) and install the spark-client snap. Chat with us at or file bug reports and feature requests [in Github](https://github.com/canonical/spark-client-snap/issues). [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Can it play Doom? Running an AI LAN party on a Spark cluster with ViZDoom](https://canonical.com/blog/can-it-play-doom-running-an-ai-lan-party-on-a-spark-cluster-with-vizdoom) It’s all about AI these days, so I decided to try and answer the important question: can you make a Spark cluster run AI agents that play a game of Doom, in a multiplayer LAN... [Rob Gibbon](https://canonical.com/blog/author/robgibbon) 23 May 2024 [### Why we built a Spark solution for Kubernetes](https://canonical.com/blog/why-we-built-a-spark-solution-for-kubernetes) 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... [Rob Gibbon](https://canonical.com/blog/author/robgibbon) 17 October 2023 [### Canonical announces supported solution for Apache Spark® on Kubernetes](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-charmed-spark) 17 October 2023 Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed Spark – an advanced solution for Apache Spark® that provides everything users need to run Apache Spark on... [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 17 October 2023 [### Implement an enterprise-ready data lakehouse architecture with Spark and Kyuubi](https://canonical.com/blog/implement-an-enterprise-ready-data-lakehouse-architecture-with-spark-and-kyuubi) Here at Canonical we are excited to announce that we have shipped the first release of our solution for enterprise-ready data lakehouses, built on the combination of Apache... [Giulia Lanzafame](https://canonical.com/blog/author/giulialanzafame) 4 September 2025