[FLINK-10892] Flink Yarn app name is hard coded

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: Deployment / YARN
• Release Note: We can set it via CLI option or API (AbstractYarnClusterDescriptor#setName).
• Assignee: vinoyang
• Reporter: Jeff Zhang
• Created: 15/Nov/18 08:28
• Updated: 01/Oct/19 15:39
• Resolved: 20/Nov/18 03:45

Description

It is always "Flink session cluster", this is not convenient for users to figure out his corresponding job in Yarn Web UI. Flink should allow user to specify its yarn app name.

https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-yarn/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/yarn/AbstractYarnClusterDescriptor.java#L419