Spark 4.1.2 requires Java 17 at runtime (it boots a JVM via the
bin/spark-submit shell script). The previous Dockerfile only installed
curl, ca-certificates, and tar — leaving spark-submit unable to find
the 'java' binary.
A JRE is sufficient (not the full JDK) because spark-submit does not
compile Java at runtime — it loads pre-built JARs from $SPARK_HOME/jars/.
JRE-only keeps the image ~160 MB smaller than JDK-headless.
Sets JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-amd64 and prepends it to
PATH so spark-submit (which checks JAVA_HOME) finds the right JVM.
Combined with the prior yarn-REST rewrite, the runtime image now needs
exactly three things in addition to python:3.12-slim:
- uv (from ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv)
- openjdk-17-jre-headless
- Spark 4.1.2 from Tsinghua mirror
Claude