[NIFI-5516] Allow data in a Connection to be Load-Balanced across cluster

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: Core Framework
• Assignee: Mark Payne
• Reporter: Mark Payne
• Created: 14/Aug/18 12:45
• Updated: 07/Nov/18 21:38
• Resolved: 04/Oct/18 21:18

Description

Allow user to configure a Connection to be load balanced across the cluster. For more information, see Feature Proposal at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Load-Balanced+Connections

Issue Links

• blocks: NIFI-5585 Prepare Nodes to be Offloaded
• blocks: NIFI-5661 Add UI support for load balancing connections
• incorporates: NIFI-4065 toString() method of StandardConnection provides wrong Source ID
• is depended upon by: NIFI-5600 Display the node on which flowfiles are located in queues
• is related to: NIFI-5696 Update references to default value for nifi.cluster.node.load.load.balance.port
• relates to: NIFI-5651 Provide better support for backpressure on load-balanced connections
• supercedes: NIFI-4155 Expand EnforceOrder capability to cluster
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2947