[BEAM-8901] add experimental flag for reusing flink local environment

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P2
• Resolution: Workaround
• Fix Version/s: 2.19.0
• Component/s: runner-flink
• Assignee: Heejong Lee
• Reporter: Heejong Lee
• Created: 05/Dec/19 23:39
• Updated: 16/May/20 13:44
• Resolved: 12/Dec/19 00:07

Description

Flink job server launches a new mini cluster every time we run the pipeline on Flink local environment. To prevent OOM, we need to reuse existing Flink local environment if possible.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10303