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Confluent Platform for Flink

The official product documentation after 12/2024 release is here.

The main features are:

  • Fully compatible with open-source Flink.
  • Deploy on Kubernetes using Helm
  • Define environment, which groups applications
  • Deploy application with user interface and task manager cluster
  • Exposes custom kubernetes operator for specific CRD

The figure below presents the Confluent Flink components deployed on Kubernetes:

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Confluent Platform for Flink
  • CFK supports the management of custom CRD, based on the Flink for Kubernetes Operator
  • CMF (Confluent Manager for Apache Flink) adds security control, and a REST API server for the cli or a HTTP client
  • FKO is the open source Flink for Kubernetes Operator
  • Flink cluster are created from command and CRDs and run Flink applications within an environment

Be sure to have confluent cli.

See dedicated session for Kubernetes deployment

Important source of information for deployment

Metadata management service for RBAC

Monitoring and Troubleshouting