Thanks for the info, Xintong Song!

Cheers,
Antonio


On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 3:38 AM Xintong Song <tonysong...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Antonio,
>
> According to experience in our production, Flink totally can handle 150
> TaskManagers per cluster. Actually, we have encountered much larger jobs
> with thousands that each single job demands thousands of TaskManagers.
> However, as the job scale increases, it gets harder to achieve good
> stability. Because there are more tasks, thus higher chance of job failover
> (or region failover if possible) caused by a single task failure. So if you
> don't have jobs as large as that scale, I think 150 TaskManagers per
> cluster would be a good choice.
>
> In case you do encounter a JobManager performance bottleneck, usually it
> can be solved by increasing the JobManager's resources with a '-jm'
> argument.
>
> Thank you~
>
> Xintong Song
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 2:33 AM Antonio Verardi <anto...@yelp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Flink users,
>>
>> How many task managers one can expect a Flink cluster to be able to
>> reasonably handle?
>>
>> I want to move a pretty big cluster from a setup on AWS EMR to one based
>> on Kubernetes. I was wondering whether it makes sense to break up the beefy
>> task managers the cluster had in something like 150 task manager containers
>> of a slot each. This is a pattern that a couple different people I met at
>> meetups told me they are using in production, but I don't know if they
>> tried something similar at this scale. Would the jobmanager be able to
>> manage so many task managers in your opinion?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Antonio
>>
>

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