# When running on a Apache Spark cluster how does Sparkflows submit the spark jobs?

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**Created:** [December 12, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.sparkflows.ai/t/when-running-on-a-apache-spark-cluster-how-does-sparkflows-submit-the-spark-jobs/88 "2025-12-12T14:11:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tarika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@Tarika](https://community.sparkflows.ai/u/Tarika)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.sparkflows.ai/t/when-running-on-a-apache-spark-cluster-how-does-sparkflows-submit-the-spark-jobs/88/1 "2025-12-12T14:11:42Z")

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Sparkflows uses spark-submit to submit the Apache Spark jobs to the cluster. Hence it is important that spark-submit works from the machine on which Sparkflows is installed.

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**Author:** ![neeraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e47c2d/32.png) [@neeraj](https://community.sparkflows.ai/u/neeraj)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://community.sparkflows.ai/t/when-running-on-a-apache-spark-cluster-how-does-sparkflows-submit-the-spark-jobs/88/2 "2025-12-15T04:41:55Z")

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Sparkflows enables you to create a **Spark Submit** –based compute connection and use it to submit jobs or workflows on an **Apache Spark cluster**.

Please find Reference Document: [Spark Submit Connection — Sparkflows 3.0 documentation](https://docs.sparkflows.io/en/latest/user-guide/connection/compute-connection/spark-submit.html)