Hi Alexey, Actually, StatefulSets could also be used to start the JobManager and TaskManager.
So why do we suggest to use Deployment in the Flink documentation? * StatefulSets requires the user to have persistent volume in the K8s cluster. However, it is not always true, especially for the unmanaged(self-build) K8s cluster. * Flink uses Zookeeper and distributed storage(S3, GFS, etc.) to process the fault tolerance. If you start multiple JobManagers, the leader election and leader retrieval will be done via Zookeeper. Also the meta information will be stored in the Zookeeper. So it is unnecessary to use StatefulSet to do more things. * The local data of JobManager and TaskManager is ephemeral. It could be discarded after crashed. Best, Yang Arvid Heise <ar...@ververica.com> 于2020年8月13日周四 下午4:38写道： > Hi Alexey, > > I don't see any issue in using stateful sets immediately. > > I'd recommend using one of the K8s operators or Ververica's community > edition [1] though if you start with a new setup as they may solve even > more issues that you might experience in the future. > > [1] https://www.ververica.com/getting-started > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:22 PM Alexey Trenikhun <yen...@msn.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> Flink documentation suggests to use Deployments to deploy JM and TM for >> kubernetes job cluster. Is any known potential issues with using >> StatefulSets instead, seems StatefullSet provides uniqueness for JM during >> upgrade/rollback, while with Deployments could be multiple JM pods (e.g.1 >> terminating and 1 running) >> >> Thanks, >> Alexey >> > > > -- > > Arvid Heise | Senior Java Developer > > <https://www.ververica.com/> > > Follow us @VervericaData > > -- > > Join Flink Forward <https://flink-forward.org/> - The Apache Flink > Conference > > Stream Processing | Event Driven | Real Time > > -- > > Ververica GmbH | Invalidenstrasse 115, 10115 Berlin, Germany > > -- > Ververica GmbH > Registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg: HRB 158244 B > Managing Directors: Timothy Alexander Steinert, Yip Park Tung Jason, Ji > (Toni) Cheng >
