How to broadcast messages to all task manager instances in cluster?

Posted by Di Tang on
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Hi guys:

I have a Flink job which contains multiple pipelines. Each pipeline depends on some configuration. I want to make the configuration dynamic and effective after change so I created a data source which periodically poll the database storing the configuration. However, how can I broadcast the events to all task manager instances?  The datastream.broadcast() only applies to the parallel instances of operator. And I don't want to connect the configuration data source to each pipeline because it is too verbose. If Flink cannot explicitly broadcast messages to task managers, is there any method to guarantee the parallel operator is distributed on all task managers?

Thanks,

Di