Benoit,

“Microclusters” is not a NiFi feature, it was just me saying you could 
logically separate flows which do not rely on each other into disparate 
clusters. So, for example, rather than running 1 12-node cluster, you could run 
4 3-node clusters.

Andy LoPresto
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> On Dec 5, 2016, at 12:55 AM, De Mezzo Benoit <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks! Sorry for the delay!
> 
> What do you mean by creating microclusters? Is this a Nifi functionnality 
> (ie. hierarchical cluster of clusters) ? Or is it a cluster design that must 
> be created thoroughly?
> 
> Benoit.
> 
> 
> 
> Le 26/11/2016 à 02:13, Andy LoPresto a écrit :
>> Benoit,
>> 
>> Every NiFi node can run many disparate flows, and you can separate them into 
>> distinct process groups for logical divisions.
>> 
>> You can trigger these flows in a few ways. The first, you could set the 
>> first processor in the flow to be triggered by event receipt rather than 
>> schedule driven so that it doesn't run until a unit of data enters the flow. 
>> The other thing you could do is use the REST API to enable/disable 
>> individual processors/flows and trigger that API invocation via cron or some 
>> other scheduling system external to NiFi. Finally, you could use an 
>> ExecuteScript processor to perform more complex custom logic to determine 
>> which flows should be running at any given time (and then use the REST API 
>> to enable/disable them).
>> 
>> If you really find that these changes cannot be synchronized across the 
>> single flow residing on a NiFi cluster, you could segment and subdivide your 
>> cluster into microclusters where each shares a partial flow (grouped by 
>> performance considerations or logical concepts).
>> 
>> Andy LoPresto
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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>> On Nov 25, 2016, at 04:13, De Mezzo Benoit <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Here is my problem: I need to run many small etl flow (say a thousand)
>>> at flow-dedicated times. As theses flows may be added, removed, changed
>>> all the time, they can not be easily merged within a big-meta flow to be
>>> run in the Nifi cluster.
>>> 
>>> I would like to know if there a way to run multiple flows within a nifi
>>> cluster?
>>> 
>>> Or may be there is a way to generate, per flow, a small standalone
>>> binary (jar?) to run only once a flow against an embedded Nifi engine
>>> (each jar will be managed by a task scheduling cluster) ?
>>> 
>>> Thanks !
>>> 
>>> Benoit.
>>> 
> 

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