[BEAM-8243] Document behavior of FlinkRunner

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: P3
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: runner-flink, website
• Labels: portability-flink
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kyle Weaver
• Created: 16/Sep/19 18:48
• Updated: 04/Jun/22 13:52

Description

The Flink runner guide should include a couple details

1) FlinkRunner pulls the job server jar from Maven by default (need to make this explicit in case of firewall concerns)

2) how to override in case the above is a problem

Issue Links

• is blocked by: BEAM-8512 Add integration tests for Python "flink_runner.py"
• is related to: BEAM-8656 flink_master_url usage in flink_runner.py
• is related to: BEAM-8372 Allow submission of Flink UberJar directly to flink cluster.
• relates to: BEAM-8591 Exception is thrown while running Beam Pipeline on Kubernetes Flink Cluster.