Spline - data lineage tracking solution for data pipelines like Apache Spark and others

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Getting started

The project consists of three main parts:

• Spark Agent that sits on a driver capturing the data lineage from Spark jobs by analyzing the execution plans

• Rest Gateway that receives the lineage data from agent and stores it in the database

• Web UI application that visualizes the stored data lineages

TL;DR

Spin up a Spline server in a Docker

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AbsaOSS/spline-getting-started/main/docker/compose.yaml

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AbsaOSS/spline-getting-started/main/docker/.env

SEED=1 docker-compose up
# SEED=1 means to also run sample jobs to populate the database. 

You can access Spline services on the following URLs:

• Spline Web UI: http://localhost:9090
• Spline Server: http://localhost:8080

To access Spline UI from another host set DOCKER_HOST_EXTERNAL variable pointing to the current host before running docker-compose. Spline UI will propagate it to the user browser so that one will be able to connect to the Spline REST endpoint from the outside of this machine.

DOCKER_HOST_EXTERNAL=192.168.1.222 docker-compose up

How to extend/customize Spline Spark Agent behavior

There are three ways how to customize default Spline Spark Agent behavior. Choose the one that fits you needs better.

1. A lot of things can be customized declaratively, without any coding needed, by just tweaking the Agent configuration.
2. Spline agent is designed for extension, so the chances are it's enough to override some method or implement some trait to achieve desired behavior, and attach it as an extension module to your Spark application. See the example extension project.
3. If the extension API isn't enough then fork the project, replace the Maven coordinates with your custom ones, and build the agent as your own JAR.

More Howto's

• Running Spline on Databricks Notebook
• Setting up Spline server on AWS

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For more information about Spline see - https://absaoss.github.io/spline/

Enjoy.

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