Yes, agreed. This could be better streamlined. If you wanna help with this,
then feel free to open a JIRA issue for it.

Cheers,
Till

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 11:37 AM Manas Kale <manaskal...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Till,
> Oh I see... I managed to do what you said using a bunch of docker exec
> commands. However, I think this solution is quite hacky and could be
> improved by providing some simple command to submit jobs using the Flink
> runtime within the docker images. I believe this will achieve full
> containerization - the host system is not at all expected to have the Flink
> runtime, everything is within Docker images.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 6:08 PM Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Manas,
>>
>> I think the documentation assumes that you first start a session cluster
>> and then submit jobs from outside the Docker images. If your jobs are
>> included in the Docker image, then you could log into the master process
>> and start the jobs from within the Docker image.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Till
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:00 PM Manas Kale <manaskal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a project that is a set of 6 jobs out of which 4 are written in
>>> Java and 2 are written in pyFlink. I want to dockerize these so that all 6
>>> can be run in a single Flink session cluster.
>>>
>>> I have been able to successfully set up the JobManager and TaskManager
>>> containers as per [1] after creating a custom Docker image that has Python.
>>> For the last step, the guide asks us to submit the job using a local
>>> distribution of Flink:
>>>
>>> $ ./bin/flink run ./examples/streaming/TopSpeedWindowing.jar
>>>
>>> I am probably missing something here because I have the following
>>> questions:
>>> Why do I need to use a local distribution to submit a job?
>>> Why can't I use the Flink distribution that already exists within the
>>> images?
>>> How do I submit a job using the Docker image's distribution?
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-stable/deployment/resource-providers/standalone/docker.html#starting-a-session-cluster-on-docker
>>>
>>>

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