diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/client/AppClient.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/client/AppClient.scala
index df6ba7d669..1e2f469214 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/client/AppClient.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/client/AppClient.scala
@@ -68,12 +68,10 @@ private[spark] class AppClient(
     // A thread pool for registering with masters. Because registering with a master is a blocking
     // action, this thread pool must be able to create "masterRpcAddresses.size" threads at the same
     // time so that we can register with all masters.
-    private val registerMasterThreadPool = new ThreadPoolExecutor(
-      0,
-      masterRpcAddresses.length, // Make sure we can register with all masters at the same time
-      60L, TimeUnit.SECONDS,
-      new SynchronousQueue[Runnable](),
-      ThreadUtils.namedThreadFactory("appclient-register-master-threadpool"))
+    private val registerMasterThreadPool = ThreadUtils.newDaemonCachedThreadPool(
+      "appclient-register-master-threadpool",
+      masterRpcAddresses.length // Make sure we can register with all masters at the same time
+    )
 
     // A scheduled executor for scheduling the registration actions
     private val registrationRetryThread =
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/worker/Worker.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/worker/Worker.scala
index 418faf8fc9..1afc1ff59f 100755
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/worker/Worker.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/worker/Worker.scala
@@ -146,12 +146,10 @@ private[deploy] class Worker(
   // A thread pool for registering with masters. Because registering with a master is a blocking
   // action, this thread pool must be able to create "masterRpcAddresses.size" threads at the same
   // time so that we can register with all masters.
-  private val registerMasterThreadPool = new ThreadPoolExecutor(
-    0,
-    masterRpcAddresses.size, // Make sure we can register with all masters at the same time
-    60L, TimeUnit.SECONDS,
-    new SynchronousQueue[Runnable](),
-    ThreadUtils.namedThreadFactory("worker-register-master-threadpool"))
+  private val registerMasterThreadPool = ThreadUtils.newDaemonCachedThreadPool(
+    "worker-register-master-threadpool",
+    masterRpcAddresses.size // Make sure we can register with all masters at the same time
+  )
 
   var coresUsed = 0
   var memoryUsed = 0
diff --git a/yarn/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/YarnAllocator.scala b/yarn/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/YarnAllocator.scala
index 73cd9031f0..4e044aa478 100644
--- a/yarn/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/YarnAllocator.scala
+++ b/yarn/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/YarnAllocator.scala
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ import scala.collection.mutable
 import scala.collection.mutable.{ArrayBuffer, HashMap, HashSet}
 import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
 
-import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ThreadFactoryBuilder
-
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records._
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.client.api.AMRMClient
@@ -40,7 +38,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.deploy.yarn.YarnSparkHadoopUtil._
 import org.apache.spark.rpc.{RpcCallContext, RpcEndpointRef}
 import org.apache.spark.scheduler.{ExecutorExited, ExecutorLossReason}
 import org.apache.spark.scheduler.cluster.CoarseGrainedClusterMessages.RemoveExecutor
-import org.apache.spark.util.Utils
+import org.apache.spark.util.ThreadUtils
 
 /**
  * YarnAllocator is charged with requesting containers from the YARN ResourceManager and deciding
@@ -117,13 +115,9 @@ private[yarn] class YarnAllocator(
   // Resource capability requested for each executors
   private[yarn] val resource = Resource.newInstance(executorMemory + memoryOverhead, executorCores)
 
-  private val launcherPool = new ThreadPoolExecutor(
-    // max pool size of Integer.MAX_VALUE is ignored because we use an unbounded queue
-    sparkConf.getInt("spark.yarn.containerLauncherMaxThreads", 25), Integer.MAX_VALUE,
-    1, TimeUnit.MINUTES,
-    new LinkedBlockingQueue[Runnable](),
-    new ThreadFactoryBuilder().setNameFormat("ContainerLauncher #%d").setDaemon(true).build())
-  launcherPool.allowCoreThreadTimeOut(true)
+  private val launcherPool = ThreadUtils.newDaemonCachedThreadPool(
+    "ContainerLauncher",
+    sparkConf.getInt("spark.yarn.containerLauncherMaxThreads", 25))
 
   // For testing
   private val launchContainers = sparkConf.getBoolean("spark.yarn.launchContainers", true)