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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+apiVersion: spark.apache.org/v1
+kind: SparkApplication
+metadata:
+  name: pi-statefulset
+spec:
+  mainClass: "org.apache.spark.examples.SparkPi"
+  driverArgs: ["20000"]
+  jars: "local:///opt/spark/examples/jars/spark-examples.jar"
+  sparkConf:
+    spark.executor.instances: "3"
+    spark.kubernetes.allocation.pods.allocator: "statefulset"
+    spark.kubernetes.authenticate.driver.serviceAccountName: "spark"
+    spark.kubernetes.container.image: "apache/spark:4.0.1"
+  applicationTolerations:
+    resourceRetainPolicy: OnFailure
+  runtimeVersions:
+    sparkVersion: "4.0.1"