Re: Using standalone single node without HA in production, crazy?

Posted by Ufuk Celebi on
URL: http://deprecated-apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.369.s1.nabble.com/Using-standalone-single-node-without-HA-in-production-crazy-tp7758p7785.html

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Ryan Crumley <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Questions:
> 1. Is this a viable approach? Any pitfalls to be aware of?

The major pitfall would be future migrations as outlined by Jamie.

> 2. What is the correct term for this deployment mode? Single node
> standalone? Local?

I would say single node standalone.

> 3. Will the RocksDB state backend work in a single jvm mode?

Yes. One JVM will execute the regular JobManager and TaskManager code.

>
> 4. When the single jvm process becomes unhealthy and is restarted by
> marathon will flink recover appropriately or is failure recovery a function
> of HA?

The checkpoint state will unfortunately get lost in this case. For
this to work you have to run with HA, which requires ZooKeeper.


> 5. How would I migrate the RocksDB state once I move to HA mode? Is there a
> straight forward path?

See Jamie's answer.