A minimal sandbox cluster running via docker-compose (1 master, 1 worker) as described in this medium article.

TLDR: I'm not reading that article

1. export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jre
2. docker pull bitnami/spark:3.5.1
3. conda create -n pyspark-311 python=3.11 pyspark=3.5.1
4. export HOST_IP=<YOUR IPV4 IP>
5. docker-compose up --build
6. conda activate pyspark-311 && python hello-pyspark.py