In order to deploy a job cluster on Kubernetes, you first need to build a Docker image containing Flink and the user code jar. Please follow the instructions you can find here to build a job container image.
This directory contains a predefined K8s service and two template files for the job cluster entry point and the task managers.
The K8s service is used to let the cluster pods find each other. If you start the Flink cluster in HA mode, then this is not necessary, because the HA implementation is used to detect leaders.
In order to use the template files, please replace the ${VARIABLES} in the file with concrete values.
The files contain the following variables:
${FLINK_IMAGE_NAME}: Name of the image to use for the container${FLINK_JOB}: Name of the Flink job to start (the user code jar must be included in the container image)${FLINK_JOB_PARALLELISM}: Degree of parallelism with which to start the Flink job and the number of required task managers
One way to substitute the variables is to use envsubst.
See here for a guide to install it on Mac OS X.
Alternatively, copy the template files (suffixed with *.template) and replace the variables.
In non HA mode, you should first start the job cluster service:
kubectl create -f job-cluster-service.yaml
In order to deploy the job cluster entrypoint run:
FLINK_IMAGE_NAME=<IMAGE_NAME> FLINK_JOB=<JOB_NAME> FLINK_JOB_PARALLELISM=<PARALLELISM> envsubst < job-cluster-job.yaml.template | kubectl create -f -
Now you should see the flink-job-cluster job being started by calling kubectl get job.
At last, you should start the task manager deployment:
FLINK_IMAGE_NAME=<IMAGE_NAME> FLINK_JOB_PARALLELISM=<PARALLELISM> envsubst < task-manager-deployment.yaml.template | kubectl create -f -
In order to resume from a savepoint, one needs to pass the savepoint path to the cluster entrypoint.
This can be achieved by adding "--fromSavepoint", "<SAVEPOINT_PATH>" to the args field in the job-cluster-job.yaml.template.
Note that <SAVEPOINT_PATH> needs to be accessible from the job-cluster-job pod (e.g. adding it to the image or storing it on a DFS).
Additionally one can specify "--allowNonRestoredState" to allow that savepoint state is skipped which cannot be restored.
After starting the job cluster service, the web UI will be available under <NODE_IP>:30081.
In the case of Minikube, <NODE_IP> equals minikube ip.
You can then use the Flink client to send Flink commands to the cluster:
bin/flink list -m <NODE_IP:30081>
The job cluster entry point pod is part of the Kubernetes job and terminates once the Flink job reaches a globally terminal state. Alternatively, you can also stop the job manually.
kubectl delete job flink-job-cluster
The task manager pods are part of the task manager deployment and need to be deleted manually by calling
kubectl delete deployment flink-task-manager
Last but not least you should also stop the job cluster service
kubectl delete service flink-job-cluster