There is a pull request for Kerberos Keytab-based authentication. That way, streaming jobs can run longer than 7 days.
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2275 On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Prabhu V <vpra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Obeservations with Streaming. > > > > 1) Long running kerberos fails in 7 days (the data that is held in the > > window buffer is lost and restart results in event loss) > > This is a known issue I think. Looping in Max who knows the details I > think. > > > 2) I hold on to the resouces/container in the cluster irrespective of > volume > > of events for all time > > Correct. There are plans for Flink 1.2 to make this dynamic. > > > Is there a way the kafkaconnector can take a start and stop values for > > offsets that would be ideal for my scenario. The design in this scenario > > would be to... > > This is not possible at the moment. What do you mean with "3) commit > the offsets after job is successful"? Do you want to manually do this? >