Diego Lobba created FLINK-37467: ----------------------------------- Summary: FlinkSessionJob: possibility to use configmaps and secrets in args parameter Key: FLINK-37467 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-37467 Project: Flink Issue Type: Improvement Components: Kubernetes Operator Affects Versions: 1.10.0 Reporter: Diego Lobba
It would be nice to have the args parameter used by the Flink job as a string interpolated using existing Kubernetes configmap and secrets resources. Pros: * using kubernetes native resources to manage secrets and configuration values * avoid duplicating configurations used by multiple jobs * tracking of dependant configmaps and secrets used by the FlinkSessionJob Considerations: * The pod runningĀ the job has access to all environment variables defined in the target session cluster, however * the args parameter does not enable interpolating environment variables, for instance if string "${MY_ENV_VARIABLE}" is defined as string value to the args parameter, there is no interpolation and the job is going to see the literal string value passed; moreover * increasing the number of environment variables to the session cluster does not scale well with the number of jobs, is not enforcing job independence as a principle and would required downtime to all job managed by the session cluster in case any of them require an update to the environment variable. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)