Cluster Execution

Flink programs can run distributed on clusters of many machines. Thereare two ways to send a program to a cluster for execution:

Command Line Interface

The command line interface lets you submit packaged programs (JARs) to a cluster(or single machine setup).

Please refer to the Command Line Interface documentation fordetails.

Remote Environment

The remote environment lets you execute Flink Java programs on a clusterdirectly. The remote environment points to the cluster on which you want toexecute the program.

Maven Dependency

If you are developing your program as a Maven project, you have to add theflink-clients module using this dependency:

  1. <dependency>
  2.   <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId>
  3.   <artifactId>flink-clients_2.11</artifactId>
  4.   <version>1.10.0</version>
  5. </dependency>

Example

The following illustrates the use of the RemoteEnvironment:

  1. public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  2.     ExecutionEnvironment env = ExecutionEnvironment
  3.         .createRemoteEnvironment("flink-master", 8081, "/home/user/udfs.jar");
  5.     DataSet<String> data = env.readTextFile("hdfs://path/to/file");
  7.     data
  8.         .filter(new FilterFunction<String>() {
  9.             public boolean filter(String value) {
  10.                 return value.startsWith("http://");
  11.             }
  12.         })
  13.         .writeAsText("hdfs://path/to/result");
  15.     env.execute();
  16. }

Note that the program contains custom user code and hence requires a JAR file withthe classes of the code attached. The constructor of the remote environmenttakes the path(s) to the JAR file(s).