title: Spark - How to run a standalone cluster locally
body: <p>Is there the possibility to run the <em>Spark standalone cluster</em> locally on just one machine (which is basically different from just developing jobs locally (i.e., <code>local[*]</code>))?.</p>
  
  <p>So far I am running 2 different VMs to build a cluster, what if I could run a standalone cluster on the very same machine, having <em>for instance</em> three different JVMs running?</p>
  
  <p>Could something like having multiple loopback addresses do the trick?</p>