apache / apache/beam

Flink runner: submit job to a Flink-on-YARN cluster

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Description

As far as I understand, running Beam pipelines on a Flink cluster can be done in two ways:
* Run directly with a Flink runner, and specifying `--flinkMaster` pipeline option via, say, `mvn exec`.
* Produce a bundled JAR, and use `bin/flink` to submit the same pipeline.

These two ways are equivalent, and work well on a standalone Flink cluster.

Submitting to a Flink-on-YARN is more complicated. You can still produce a bundled JAR, and use `bin/flink -yid ` to submit such a job. However, that seems impossible with a Flink runner directly.

If so, we should add the ability to the Flink runner to submit a job to a Flink-on-YARN cluster directly.

Imported from Jira [BEAM-1631](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-1631). Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: davor.

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Research direction

Start by comparing the Flink runner path invoked through `mvn exec` and `--flinkMaster` with the existing `bin/flink -yid ` submission flow. Done means a Beam pipeline can submit directly through the Flink runner to a Flink-on-YARN cluster with behavior equivalent to bundled-JAR submission.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
data-engineering, distributed-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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