Andrew, Thanks so much for the feedback and glad the getting started materials are helping.
Would you like a downloadable container that works out of the box for your local machine or to spin up on AWS or GCP or DO or something like that? Just trying to make sure we understand the gap correctly so we can fix it for everyone! Cheers, Sachin On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 9:55 AM Andrew Hoyle via dev <dev@beam.apache.org> wrote: > Hello, > > This is an exciting technology that I'm enjoying learning about. I'm > learning best through the examples throughout the Beam docs. (My favorite > examples have been those around the clicks, views, and batch RPC calls in > the state and timer sections.) I'm able to run proofs of concept locally > with direct, interactive pipeline runners using those helpful examples. > I'm finding it difficult, however, to make less trivial local Docker > environments that use other runners like FlinkRunner. There are many > pipeline options to weed through and I'd benefit if they were explained in > more detail. If there were a complete example of a Docker Compose Flink > runner environment + the correct pipeline settings, that would help > immensely. It seems other devs on the corners of Stack Overflow are having > similar problems understanding the different options like > environment_type=LOOPBACK|EXTERNAL|DOCKER|PROCESS|etc. and are also > struggling to get a Flink environment spun up. (I'm using the Python and > Go SDKs.) > > Thanks, > Andrew > > > >
