Hi Martin,

I'm not aware that the community is actively working on enabling the
balanced host attribute constraint. If you wanna give it a try, then I'm
happy to review your contribution.

Cheers,
Till

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 5:28 AM Renjie Liu <liurenjie2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Martin:
> I think a better solution would be to set the number of cores of each
> container equals to that of a physical server if this mesos cluster is
> dedicated to your flink cluster.
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 5:28 AM Martin Eden <martineden...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Till,
>>
>> I was able to use mesos.constraints.hard.hostattribute to run all task
>> managers on a particular host in my cluster.
>>
>> However, after looking a bit at the code, I'm not sure we can use
>> mesos.constraints.hard.hostattribute for load balancing Flink task managers
>> evenly across hosts in a Mesos cluster.
>>
>> This is because under the hood it uses the fenzo host attribute value
>> constraint while we would need the fenzo balanced host attribute constraint.
>>
>> The LaunchableMesosWorker sets the constraints via
>> the com.netflix.fenzo.TaskRequest and all of these hard constraints must be
>> satisfied by a host for the task scheduler to assign this task to that
>> host. Since the current implementation always return the static constraint
>> value configured i.e. what is after ":", see
>> org.apache.flink.mesos.runtime.clusterframework.MesosTaskManagerParameters#addHostAttrValueConstraint,
>> I don't see how we can use it to load balance unless the constraint value
>> would be dynamic based on the some property of the mesos task request.
>>
>> Am I correct in my assumptions?
>>
>> Any other way of load balancing?
>> Maybe by not even using the DCOS Flink package (mesos flink framework) at
>> all?
>> Any plans to add support for the fenzo balanced host attribute constraint?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> M
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 5:46 PM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>
>>> Flink supports the mesos.constraints.hard.hostattribute to specify task
>>> constraints based on agent attributes [1]. I think you could use them to
>>> control the task placement.
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/ops/config.html#mesos-constraints-hard-hostattribute
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Till
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 3:08 PM Martin Eden <martineden...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Vino!
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 3:37 AM vino yang <yanghua1...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Martin,
>>>>>
>>>>> Till has done most of the work of Flink on Mesos. Ping Till for you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, vino.
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin Eden <martineden...@gmail.com> 于2018年9月12日周三 下午11:21写道:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We're using Flink 1.3.2 with DCOS / Mesos.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have a 3 node cluster and are running the Flink DCOS package
>>>>>> (Flink Mesos framework) configured with 3 Task Managers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our goal is to run each of them on separate hosts for better load
>>>>>> balancing but it seems the task managers end up running on the same host.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Looked around the docs and DCOS Flink package but could not find any
>>>>>> placement policy or anything of the sorts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there anything like that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are also planning to upgrade to the latest Flink version. Is
>>>>>> something like that supported in this newer version?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> M
>>>>>>
>>>>> --
> Liu, Renjie
> Software Engineer, MVAD
>

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