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Autoscaling Flink with Reactive Mode
The document discusses autoscaling in Apache Flink, emphasizing the evolution of its capabilities from the introduction of rescalable state in Flink 1.2 to the deployment of reactive mode in Flink 1.15. Reactive mode allows Flink to automatically adjust the number of task managers based on workload, requiring external tools for management and scaling metrics. It outlines the pros and cons of different deployment strategies and introduces the adaptive scheduler for improving scaling decisions.
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Autoscaling Flink with Reactive Mode
- 1. Autoscaling with Apache Flink RobertMetzger Staff Engineer @ decodable, Committer and PMC Chair @ Flink
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- 3. Reasons for changingloads - Seasonality: - day / night - weekend / weekday - Product popularity: new feature launches, ad campaigns - Upstream system outages: load spikes during recovery
- 4. Solutions in Flinkto Rescale - Flink 1.2 (2017): Rescalable State - Flink can restore from a savepoint with a different parallelism, so no data will be lost, all computations will stay correct - When used for scaling: requires custom tooling to orchestrate operations, and bookkeeping - Flink 1.13 (2021): Reactive Mode (beta) - Flink automatically adjusts when TaskManagers are added or removed - Requires outside entity to decide on # TaskManagers - Since Flink 1.15 (2022): Reactive Mode is out of beta Further reading: https://flink.apache.org/features/2017/07/04/flink-rescalable-state.html
- 5. How to useReactive Mode? - Reactive Mode works with all standalone deployments - E.g. Kubernetes, Docker or via the provided deployment scripts - Set the configuration: scheduler-mode=reactive - Start the JobManager, and add as many TaskManagers as you need - (optionally) Use a service to determine the number of TaskManagers - Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler - AWS AutoScaling Groups - Google Cloud Managed Instance Groups
- 6. Reactive Mode: Howdoes it work? JobManager TaskManager Job parallelism = 2 TaskManager Flink automatically adjusts when TaskManagers are added or removed Example: Load is increasing Load
- 7. Reactive Mode: Howdoes it work? JobManager TaskManager Job parallelism = 4 TaskManager Flink automatically adjusts when TaskManagers are added or removed Example: Load is increasing → add more TaskManagers TaskManager TaskManager NEW NEW
- 8. Reactive Mode: Howdoes it work? - The JobManager adjusts the job parallelism depending on the number of available TaskManagers - When the # TaskManager changes, the Flink job is restarting, restoring from the latest checkpoint - Possible metrics: CPU load / Kafka lag (recommended) / Throughput / latency - Scaling model similar to Kafka Streams
- 9. Reactive Mode example:Kubernetes HPA - Kubernetes has a built-in component called HorizontalPodAutoscaler - Automatically adjusts the scale of a deployment based on a metric Flink TaskManager Deployment Flink JobManager Job Flink Job- Manager Pod Flink Task- Manager Pod Flink Task- Manager Pod Flink Task- Manager Pod min=1 max=15 cpu=80% on=TaskManager deployment Horizontalpodautoscaler Adjusted dynamically Source: https://flink.apache.org/2021/05/06/reactive-mode.html
- 10. Reactive Mode andFlink Deployments → Reactive Mode only works with “standalone mode” Passive Deployment Flink resources managed externally (“Standalone mode”) → “a bunch of JVMs” Deployed on bare metal, Docker, Kubernetes Pros / Cons: + DIY scenarios + Fast deployments - Restart → Reactive Scaling (outside entity decides) Active Deployment Flink actively manages resources → Flink talks to a resource manager Implementations: Native Kubernetes, YARN Pros / cons: + Automatically restarts failed resources + Allocates only required resources - Requires a lot of K8s permissions → Autoscaling (Flink decides)
- 11. Autoscaling with Flink?Enter Adaptive Scheduler - Benefits - Flink can make better scaling decisions - Example: rescale only right after a checkpoint completed → avoid reprocessing - Fewer components required (“batteries included”) - How? - Reactive Mode is based a new (Flink 1.13) internal workload scheduler, called Adaptive Scheduler. - Currently configured to behave “reactively”, can also be changed to automatic
- 12. Internals: Adaptive Scheduler Source/ Further reading: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-160%3A+Adaptive+Scheduler https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-138%3A+Declarative+Resource+management SlotManager Resource Manager Active K8s / YARN Requirements Adaptive Scheduler I need 15 slots I have 8 slots
- 13. Adaptive Scheduler forAutoscaling (future) Source / Further reading: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-160%3A+Adaptive+Scheduler https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-138%3A+Declarative+Resource+management SlotManager Resource Manager Active K8s / YARN Requirements Adaptive Scheduler I need x slots I have 8 slots Pluggable Autoscaler
- 14. Ideas for autoscalerimplementations - REST Interface - Set desired parallelism via REST call to JobManager - Either for entire job (and let JM decide on per-operator parallelism) or per- operator - User Code + provided autoscaling strategies - User provides Flink with a custom scaling logic with access to metrics - Problem: we want to avoid user-code on the JobManager - JobGraph configuration - Users configure min, target, max parallelism per operator
- 15. Closing remarks - Autoscalingwith Flink is possible today, it’s called “Reactive Mode” :-) - Getting started guide: https://flink.apache.org/2021/05/06/reactive-mode.html - Limitations of Adaptive Scheduler / Reactive Mode - Only works with Application Mode - Task local recovery not yet supported - Lack of good UI support (history of rescale events)
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Editor's Notes
- #3 Space between actual load and # of workers == wasted resources You want your resource allocation to be close to actual load
- #5 Rescalable state: stop with savepoint, restore Good when scaling manually and very rarely Reactive Mode == Kafka Streams deployment model
- #6 Rescalable state: stop with savepoint, restore Good when scaling manually and very rarely Reactive Mode == Kafka Streams deployment model
- #7 How does Reactive Mode work?
- #8 “Just add more hardware”
- #9 Rescaling same operation as failure: restore from latest checkpoint Can be expensive with large state … only rescale rarely!
- #10 Example implementation in Kubernetes, the most popular deployment option of Flink at the moment
- #11 Relationship of scaling and deployment modes. Passive deployment: manually launch the flink components (K8s HA also works here!) Active deployment: flink takes care of launch itself (mostly)
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