[FLINK-18783] Load AkkaRpcService through separate class loader

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.10.1, 1.11.1, 1.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.14.0
• Component/s: Runtime / Coordination
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Chesnay Schepler
• Reporter: Till Rohrmann
• Created: 31/Jul/20 10:04
• Updated: 23/Sep/21 18:09
• Resolved: 21/Jul/21 15:34

Description

In order to reduce the runtime dependency on Scala and also to hide the Akka dependency I suggest to load the AkkaRpcService and its dependencies through a separate class loader similar to what we do with Flink's plugins.

Issue Links

• causes: FLINK-23998 flink-dist NOTICE not properly checked by NoticeFileChecker
• causes: FLINK-23476 Snapshot deployments are broken
• contains: FLINK-23091 Bump Akka to 2.6
• is blocked by: FLINK-23392 Benchmarks should exclude startup/shutdown time
• relates to: FLINK-22441 In Flink v1.11.3 contains netty(version:3.10.6) netty(version:4.1.60) . There are many vulnerabilities, like CVE-2021-21409 etc. please confirm these version and fix. thx
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #16345