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Allow defining a time to live for finished SparkApplication driver pods

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
kubernetes, rust, spark

Research direction

Start by reading the SparkApplication specification and the driver/executor pod cleanup flow. Trace how finished driver pods are deleted and how spark.kubernetes.executor.deleteOnTermination is handled. Done means a driver.ttlSecondsAfterFinished field supports delayed cleanup, preserves executors for the same period unless explicitly disabled, and keeps the current immediate-delete default.

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Description

While looking into why the sensor in https://docs.stackable.tech/home/stable/airflow/usage-guide/applying-custom-resources/#_dag_code is not able to pull driver logs, I noticed that there is no way to stop driver / executor pods from being immediately deleted after the spark application finishes.

There is a sparkConf value for executors (spark.kubernetes.executor.deleteOnTermination - not considered by the operator and which cannot be acted upon by spark itself because the driver immediately terminates) but nothing comparable for drivers. We could define a new field:

spec:
  driver:
    ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 600   # default 0 = delete immediately, as today

To enable to sensor use case or allow better debugging. When set to a value > 0, the executor pods should also be kept around as long as deleteOnTermination is not set to false.

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Rust
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