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Seth Wiesman commented on FLINK-25236:
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Unfortunately, this is not so simple to do.
The method you linked to only validates that max parallelism has not been
changed, and each operator has a mapping within the checkpoint. State changes
themselves are validated lazily when the state descriptor is registered within
the runtime context; because state descriptors themselves are registered
lazily. This means the only way to validate a DataStream application can
restore from a snapshot fully is to attempt the restore.
I would typically recommend either QA testing or Blue / Green deployments for
these kinds of low latency requirements. Both are readily achieved with Flinks
snapshot-based fault-tolerance model. Take a savepoint of your production
workload and use that to start your new application in a QA environment. This
new application can read from production sources, have internal production
state, and so long as sinks are configured dynamically, this new version can
write to a non-production output. If this restore works, then deploying to
production is guaranteed to succeed. This also allows you the opportunity to
validate the output of your changes before deploying them to production.
> Add a mechanism to generate and validate a jobgraph with a checkpoint before
> submission
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>
> Key: FLINK-25236
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-25236
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ben Augarten
> Priority: Major
>
> I've mostly worked on flink 1.9-1.12, but I believe this is still an issue
> today.
>
> I've worked on a few flink applications now that have struggled to reliably
> activate new versions of a currently running job. Sometimes, users make
> changes to a job graph that make it so state cannot be restored. Sometimes
> users make changes to a job graph that make it unable to be scheduled on a
> given cluster (increased parallelism with insufficient task slots on the
> cluster). These validations are [performed
> here|https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/checkpoint/Checkpoints.java#L120]
>
> It's not flink's problem that these issues arise, but these issues are only
> detected when the JM tries to run the given jobgraph. For exactly once
> applications (and other applications where running two job graphs for the
> same application is undesirable) there is unneeded downtime when users submit
> jobgraphs with breaking changes because users must cancel the old job, submit
> the new job to see if it is valid and will activate, and then resubmit the
> old job when activation fails. As a user with low-latency requirements, this
> change management solution is unfortunate, and there doesn't seem to be
> anything technical preventing these validations from happening earlier.
>
> Suggestion: provide a mechanism for users to (1) create and (2) validate the
> new job graph+checkpoint without running it so that they do not need to
> cancel a currently running version of the job until they're more sure it will
> activate
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