diff --git a/project/SparkBuild.scala b/project/SparkBuild.scala
index de3871833b..b1d66686c9 100644
--- a/project/SparkBuild.scala
+++ b/project/SparkBuild.scala
@@ -802,11 +802,30 @@ object Hive {
 }
 
 object YARN {
+  val genConfigProperties = TaskKey[Unit]("gen-config-properties",
+    "Generate config.properties which contains a setting whether Hadoop is provided or not")
+  val propFileName = "config.properties"
+  val hadoopProvidedProp = "spark.yarn.isHadoopProvided"
+
   lazy val settings = Seq(
     excludeDependencies --= Seq(
       ExclusionRule(organization = "com.sun.jersey"),
       ExclusionRule("javax.servlet", "javax.servlet-api"),
-      ExclusionRule("javax.ws.rs", "jsr311-api"))
+      ExclusionRule("javax.ws.rs", "jsr311-api")),
+    Compile / unmanagedResources :=
+      (Compile / unmanagedResources).value.filter(!_.getName.endsWith(s"$propFileName")),
+    genConfigProperties := {
+      val file = (Compile / classDirectory).value / s"org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/$propFileName"
+      val isHadoopProvided = SbtPomKeys.effectivePom.value.getProperties.get(hadoopProvidedProp)
+      IO.write(file, s"$hadoopProvidedProp = $isHadoopProvided")
+    },
+    Compile / copyResources := (Def.taskDyn {
+      val c = (Compile / copyResources).value
+      Def.task {
+        (Compile / genConfigProperties).value
+        c
+      }
+    }).value
   )
 }