[FLINK-22257] Clarify Flink ConfigOptions Usage

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Not a Priority
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Runtime / Configuration
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major auto-deprioritized-minor usability
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Fabian Paul
• Created: 13/Apr/21 09:55
• Updated: 14/Jul/22 22:38

Description

For users, it is hard to determine which ConfigOptions are relevant for the different stages of a Flink application.

Beginning from the translation of the user program to the execution on the cluster. In particular which options can be configured through the different channels.

• Cluster configuration (i.e. flink-conf.yaml)
• Application configuration, code-based