In this chapter, the following recipes will be covered:
- Downloading an Ubuntu Desktop image
- Installing and configuring Ubuntu with VMWare Fusion on macOS
- Installing and configuring Ubuntu with Oracle VirtualBox on Windows
- Installing and configuring Ubuntu Desktop for Google Cloud Platform
- Installing and configuring Spark and prerequisites on Ubuntu Desktop
- Integrating Jupyter notebooks with Spark
- Starting and configuring a Spark cluster
- Stopping a Spark cluster