[FLINK-29634] Support periodic checkpoint triggering

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: kubernetes-operator-1.7.0
• Component/s: Kubernetes Operator
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Alexander Fedulov
• Reporter: Thomas Weise
• Created: 13/Oct/22 19:37
• Updated: 21/Aug/23 14:46
• Resolved: 02/Aug/23 13:18

Description

Similar to the support for periodic savepoints, the operator should support triggering periodic checkpoints to break the incremental checkpoint chain.

Support for external triggering will come with 1.17: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-27101 

Issue Links

• is related to: FLINK-27101 Add REST API to manually trigger checkpoints
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #637