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+FROM quay.io/thoth-station/s2i-lab-elyra:v0.0.12
+
+ARG PKG_ROOT=/opt/spark
+ARG SPARK_VERSION=3.1.2
+
+USER root
+
+# Download and extract the binaries for Spark and Hadoop
+RUN wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/spark/spark-${SPARK_VERSION}/spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop3.2.tgz &&\
+    tar -C /opt -zxf spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop3.2.tgz &&\
+    mv /opt/spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop3.2 ${PKG_ROOT} &&\
+    rm spark-${SPARK_VERSION}-bin-hadoop3.2.tgz
+
+# Install java 11 to run spark
+RUN yum -y install java-11-openjdk java-11-openjdk-devel maven &&\
+    yum clean all
+
+# Setup required env vars for spark and hadoop
+ENV JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11.0.12.0.7-0.el8_4.x86_64
+ENV PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+ENV SPARK_HOME=${PKG_ROOT}
+ENV SPARK_CLUSTER=spark-cluster-$JUPYTERHUB_USER_NAME
+
+#Fix java symlink to Java 11
+RUN ln -sf $JAVA_HOME/bin/java /usr/bin/java
+
+#Install python packages
+RUN pip install pyspark==${SPARK_VERSION}
+RUN pip install openshift-client
+RUN pip install jinja2
+
+USER 1001
+RUN fix-permissions ${PKG_ROOT}