# Getting started with spark-submit for Amazon EMR on EKS
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Amazon EMR 6.10.0 and higher supports spark-submit for running Spark applications on an Amazon EKS cluster. The section that follows shows you how to submit a command for a Spark application.

## Run a Spark application
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To run the Spark application, follow these steps:

1. Before you can run a Spark application with the `spark-submit` command, complete the steps in [Setting up spark-submit for Amazon EMR on EKS](spark-submit-setup.md). 

1. Run a container with an Amazon EMR on EKS base image. See [How to select a base image URI](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/EMR-on-EKS-DevelopmentGuide/docker-custom-images-tag.html) for more information.

   ```
   kubectl run -it containerName --image=EMRonEKSImage --command -n namespace /bin/bash
   ```

1. Set the values for the following environment variables:

   ```
   export SPARK_HOME=spark-home
   export MASTER_URL=k8s://Amazon EKS-cluster-endpoint
   ```

1. Now, submit the Spark application with the following command:

   ```
   $SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-submit \
    --class org.apache.spark.examples.SparkPi \
    --master $MASTER_URL \
    --conf spark.kubernetes.container.image=895885662937.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/spark/emr-6.10.0:latest \
    --conf spark.kubernetes.authenticate.driver.serviceAccountName=spark \
    --deploy-mode cluster \
    --conf spark.kubernetes.namespace=spark-operator \
    local:///usr/lib/spark/examples/jars/spark-examples.jar 20
   ```

For more information about submitting applications to Spark, see [Submitting applications](https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/submitting-applications.html) in the Apache Spark documentation.

**Important**  
`spark-submit` only supports cluster mode as the submission mechanism.