The Flink operations playground lets you explore and play with Apache Flink's features to manage and operate stream processing jobs, including
It's based on a docker-compose environment and is super easy to setup.
The operations playground requires a custom Docker image, as well as public images for Flink, Kafka, and ZooKeeper.
The docker-compose.yaml file of the operations playground is located in the operations-playground directory. Assuming you are at the root directory of the flink-playgrounds repository, change to the operations-playground folder by running
cd operations-playground
Build the Docker image by running
docker-compose build
Once you built the Docker image, run the following command to start the playground
docker-compose up -d
You can check if the playground was successfully started by accessing the WebUI of the Flink cluster at http://localhost:8081.
If you get the error “Unhandled exception: Filesharing has been cancelled”, you should configure file sharing in Docker Desktop before starting. In Settings > Resources > File Sharing, add the operations-playground/conf directory.
To stop the playground, run the following command
docker-compose down
The playground setup and more detailed instructions are presented in the “Getting Started” guide of Flink's documentation.