Spark Driver roles

Question

What are the roles of Spark Driver in Spark Applications?

Answer 1

A Spark driver (aka an application’s driver process) is a JVM process that hosts SparkContext for a Spark application. It is the master node in a Spark application.
It is the cockpit of jobs and tasks execution (using DAGScheduler and Task Scheduler).
It hosts Web UI for the environment.
It splits a Spark application into tasks and schedules them to run on executors.
A driver is where the task scheduler lives and spawns tasks across workers.
A driver coordinates workers and overall execution of tasks.

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