diff --git a/resource-managers/kubernetes/docker/src/main/dockerfiles/spark/Dockerfile b/resource-managers/kubernetes/docker/src/main/dockerfiles/spark/Dockerfile
index 196b74f8241e..f0c6428c6a36 100644
--- a/resource-managers/kubernetes/docker/src/main/dockerfiles/spark/Dockerfile
+++ b/resource-managers/kubernetes/docker/src/main/dockerfiles/spark/Dockerfile
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ ARG k8s_tests=kubernetes/tests
 
 RUN set -ex && \
     apk upgrade --no-cache && \
+    ln -s /lib /lib64 && \
     apk add --no-cache bash tini libc6-compat linux-pam nss && \
     mkdir -p /opt/spark && \
     mkdir -p /opt/spark/work-dir && \
diff --git a/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/BasicTestsSuite.scala b/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/BasicTestsSuite.scala
index 4e749c40563d..3c1d9ea54ab2 100644
--- a/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/BasicTestsSuite.scala
+++ b/resource-managers/kubernetes/integration-tests/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/k8s/integrationtest/BasicTestsSuite.scala
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ private[spark] trait BasicTestsSuite { k8sSuite: KubernetesSuite =>
   }
 
   test("Run SparkPi with an argument.", k8sTestTag) {
+    // This additional configuration with snappy is for SPARK-26995
+    sparkAppConf
+      .set("spark.io.compression.codec", "snappy")
     runSparkPiAndVerifyCompletion(appArgs = Array("5"))
   }