<p>While running a spark job with a Kubernetes cluster, we get the following error:</p>

<pre><code>2018-11-30 14:00:47 INFO  DAGScheduler:54 - Resubmitted ShuffleMapTask(1, 58), so marking it as still running.
2018-11-30 14:00:47 WARN  TaskSetManager:66 - Lost task 310.0 in stage 1.0 (TID 311, 10.233.71.29, executor 3): ExecutorLostFailure (executor 3 exited caused by one of the running tasks) Reason: 
The executor with id 3 exited with exit code -1.
The API gave the following brief reason: Evicted
The API gave the following message: The node was low on resource: ephemeral-storage. Container executor was using 515228Ki, which exceeds its request of 0. 
The API gave the following container statuses:
</code></pre>

<p>How to configure the job so we can increase the ephemeral storage size of each container ?</p>

<p>We use spark 2.4.0 and Kubernetes 1.12.1</p>

<p>The spark submit option is as follow</p>

<pre><code>--conf spark.local.dir=/mnt/tmp \
--conf spark.executor.instances=4 \
--conf spark.executor.cores=8 \
--conf spark.executor.memory=100g \
--conf spark.driver.memory=4g \
--conf spark.driver.cores=1 \
--conf spark.kubernetes.memoryOverheadFactor=0.1 \
--conf spark.kubernetes.container.image=spark:2.4.0 \
--conf spark.kubernetes.namespace=visionlab \
--conf spark.kubernetes.authenticate.driver.serviceAccountName=spark \
--conf spark.kubernetes.container.image.pullPolicy=Always \
--conf spark.kubernetes.driver.volumes.persistentVolumeClaim.myvolume.options.claimName=pvc \
--conf spark.kubernetes.driver.volumes.persistentVolumeClaim.myvolume.mount.path=/mnt/ \
--conf spark.kubernetes.driver.volumes.persistentVolumeClaim.myvolume.mount.readOnly=false \
--conf spark.kubernetes.executor.volumes.persistentVolumeClaim.myvolume.options.claimName=pvc \
--conf spark.kubernetes.executor.volumes.persistentVolumeClaim.myvolume.mount.path=/mnt/ \
--conf spark.kubernetes.executor.volumes.persistentVolumeClaim.myvolume.mount.readOnly=false
</code></pre>

<p>Had the same problem but I was able to upgrade to Spark 3.x where you can provide a <a href="http://spark.apache.org/docs/3.0.0/running-on-kubernetes.html#pod-template" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Pod Template</a>.</p>
<pre><code>--conf spark.kubernetes.executor.podTemplateFile=my_pod_template.yml
</code></pre>
<p>in which you can set the ephemeral storage request</p>
<pre><code>apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: mypod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: mycontainer
    image: myimage:latest
    resources:
      requests:
        ephemeral-storage: &quot;50Gi&quot;
</code></pre>
