This was now answered in your other Thread, right? Best, Aljoscha
> On 18. Jul 2017, at 11:37, Moiz Jinia <moiz.ji...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Aljoscha Krettek wrote >> Hi, >> zero-downtime updates are currently not supported. What is supported in >> Flink right now is a savepoint-shutdown-restore cycle. With this, you >> first >> draw a savepoint (which is essentially a checkpoint with some meta data), >> then you cancel your job, then you do whatever you need to do (update >> machines, update Flink, update Job) and restore from the savepoint. >> >> A possible solution for zero-downtime update would be to do a savepoint, >> then start a second Flink job from that savepoint, then shutdown the first >> job. With this, your data sinks would need to be able to handle being >> written to by 2 jobs at the same time, i.e. writes should probably be >> idempotent. >> >> This is the link to the savepoint doc: >> https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.2/setup/savepoints.html >> >> Does that help? >> >> Cheers, >> Aljoscha >> >> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 at 18:16 Andrew Hoblitzell < > >> ahoblitzell@ > >> > >> wrote: >> >>> Hi. Does Apache Flink currently have support for zero down time or the = >>> ability to do rolling upgrades? >>> >>> If so, what are concerns to watch for and what best practices might = >>> exist? Are there version management and data inconsistency issues to = >>> watch for?= >>> > > When a second job instance is started in parallel from a savepoint, my > incoming kafka messages would get sharded between the 2 running instances of > the job (since they both would belong to the same consumer group). So when I > stop the older version of the job, i stand to lose data (inspite of the fact > that my downstream consumer is idempotent) > > If I used a different consumer group for the new job version (and start it > from a savepoint), will the savepoint ensure that the second job instance > starts from the correct offset? Do I need to do anything extra to make this > work? (example set the uid on the source of the job). > > Thanks! > Moiz > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Flink-rolling-upgrade-support-tp10674p14313.html > > <http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/Flink-rolling-upgrade-support-tp10674p14313.html> > Sent from the Apache Flink User Mailing List archive. mailing list archive at > Nabble.com <http://nabble.com/>.
