Spark cluster Master IP address not binding to floating IP
<p>I'm trying to configure a Spark cluster using OpenStack. Currently I have two servers named</p>

<ul>
<li>spark-master (IP: 192.x.x.1, floating IP: 87.x.x.1)</li>
<li>spark-slave-1 (IP: 192.x.x.2, floating IP: 87.x.x.2)</li>
</ul>

<p>I am running into problems when trying to use these floating IPs vs the standard public IPs.</p>

<p>On the spark-master machine, the hostname is <strong>spark-master</strong> and <em>/etc/hosts</em> looks like</p>

<pre><code>127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 spark-master
</code></pre>

<p>The only change made to <em>spark-env.sh</em> is <code>export SPARK_MASTER_IP='192.x.x.1'</code>. If I run <code>./sbin/start-master.sh</code> I can view the web UI.</p>

<p>The thing is I view the web UI using the floating IP 87.x.x.1, and there it lists the Master URL: spark://192.x.x.1:7077.</p>

<p>From the slave I can run <code>./sbin/start-slave.sh spark://192.x.x.1:7077</code> and it connects successfully. </p>

<p>If I try to use the floating IP by changing <em>spark-env.sh</em> on the master to <code>export SPARK_MASTER_IP='87.x.x.1'</code> then I get the following error log</p>

<pre><code>Spark Command: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/java -cp /usr/local/spark-1.6.1-bin-hadoop2.6/conf/:/usr/local/spark-1.6.1-bin-hadoop2.6/lib/spark-assembly-1.6.1-hadoop2.6.0.jar:/usr/local/spark-1.6.1-bin-hadoop2.6/lib/datanucleus-core-3.2.10.jar:/usr/local/spark-1.6.1-bin-hadoop2.6/lib/datanucleus-api-jdo-3.2.6.jar:/usr/local/spark-1.6.1-bin-hadoop2.6/lib/datanucleus-rdbms-3.2.9.jar -Xms1g -Xmx1g -XX:MaxPermSize=256m org.apache.spark.deploy.master.Master --ip 87.x.x.1 --port 7077 --webui-port 8080
========================================
Using Spark's default log4j profile: org/apache/spark/log4j-defaults.properties
16/05/12 15:05:33 INFO Master: Registered signal handlers for [TERM, HUP, INT]
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Your hostname, spark-master resolves to a loopback address: 127.0.1.1; using 192.x.x.1 instead (on interface eth0)
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Set SPARK_LOCAL_IP if you need to bind to another address
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
16/05/12 15:05:33 INFO SecurityManager: Changing view acls to: ubuntu
16/05/12 15:05:33 INFO SecurityManager: Changing modify acls to: ubuntu
16/05/12 15:05:33 INFO SecurityManager: SecurityManager: authentication disabled; ui acls disabled; users with view permissions: Set(ubuntu); users with modify permissions: Set(ubuntu)
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7077. Attempting port 7078.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7078. Attempting port 7079.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7079. Attempting port 7080.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7080. Attempting port 7081.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7081. Attempting port 7082.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7082. Attempting port 7083.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7083. Attempting port 7084.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7084. Attempting port 7085.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7085. Attempting port 7086.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7086. Attempting port 7087.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7087. Attempting port 7088.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7088. Attempting port 7089.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7089. Attempting port 7090.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7090. Attempting port 7091.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7091. Attempting port 7092.
16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7092. Attempting port 7093.
Exception in thread "main" java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: Service 'sparkMaster' failed after 16 retries!
  at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method)
  at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:463)
  at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:455)
  at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:223)
  at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketAdaptor.bind(ServerSocketAdaptor.java:74)
  at io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioServerSocketChannel.doBind(NioServerSocketChannel.java:125)
  at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel$AbstractUnsafe.bind(AbstractChannel.java:485)
  at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.bind(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1089)
  at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeBind(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:430)
  at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.bind(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:415)
  at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.bind(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:903)
  at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel.bind(AbstractChannel.java:198)
  at io.netty.bootstrap.AbstractBootstrap$2.run(AbstractBootstrap.java:348)
  at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor.runAllTasks(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:357)
  at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:357)
  at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$2.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:111)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
</code></pre>

<p>Obviously the takeaway here for me is the line </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Your hostname, spark-master resolves to a loopback address: 127.0.1.1;
  using 192.x.x.1 instead (on interface eth0) 16/05/12 15:05:33 WARN
  Utils: Set SPARK_LOCAL_IP if you need to bind to another address</p>
</blockquote>

<p>but no matter what approach I then try and take I just run into more errors. </p>

<p>If I set both <code>export SPARK_MASTER_IP='87.x.x.1'</code> and <code>export SPARK_LOCAL_IP='87.x.x.1'</code> and try <code>./sbin/start-master.sh</code> I get the following error log</p>

<pre><code>16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7077. Attempting port 7078.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7078. Attempting port 7079.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7079. Attempting port 7080.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7080. Attempting port 7081.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7081. Attempting port 7082.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7082. Attempting port 7083.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7083. Attempting port 7084.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7084. Attempting port 7085.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7085. Attempting port 7086.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7086. Attempting port 7087.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7087. Attempting port 7088.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7088. Attempting port 7089.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7089. Attempting port 7090.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7090. Attempting port 7091.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7091. Attempting port 7092.
16/05/17 11:00:55 WARN Utils: Service 'sparkMaster' could not bind on port 7092. Attempting port 7093.
Exception in thread "main" java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address: Service 'sparkMaster' failed after 16 retries!
</code></pre>

<p>This, despite the fact my security group seems correct</p>

<pre><code>ALLOW IPv4 443/tcp from 0.0.0.0/0
ALLOW IPv4 80/tcp from 0.0.0.0/0
ALLOW IPv4 8081/tcp from 0.0.0.0/0
ALLOW IPv4 8080/tcp from 0.0.0.0/0
ALLOW IPv4 18080/tcp from 0.0.0.0/0
ALLOW IPv4 7077/tcp from 0.0.0.0/0
ALLOW IPv4 4040/tcp from 0.0.0.0/0
ALLOW IPv4 to 0.0.0.0/0
ALLOW IPv6 to ::/0
ALLOW IPv4 22/tcp from 0.0.0.0/0
</code></pre>