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Try Flink

If you’re interested in playing around with Flink, try one of our tutorials:

  • [Local Installation]({% link try-flink/local_installation.md %})
  • [Fraud Detection with the DataStream API]({% link try-flink/datastream_api.md %})
  • [Real Time Reporting with the Table API]({% link try-flink/table_api.md %})
  • [Intro to PyFlink]({% link dev/python/index.md %})
  • [Flink Operations Playground]({% link try-flink/flink-operations-playground.md %})

Learn Flink

  • To dive in deeper, the [Hands-on Training]({% link learn-flink/index.md %}) includes a set of lessons and exercises that provide a step-by-step introduction to Flink.

  • The [Concepts]({% link concepts/index.md %}) section explains what you need to know about Flink before exploring the reference documentation.

Get Help with Flink

If you get stuck, check out our community support resources. In particular, Apache Flink’s user mailing list is consistently ranked as one of the most active of any Apache project, and is a great way to get help quickly.

Explore Flink

The reference documentation covers all the details. Some starting points:

  • [DataStream API]({% link dev/datastream_api.md %})
  • [Table API & SQL]({% link dev/table/index.md %})
  • [Stateful Functions]({% if site.is_stable %} {{ site.statefundocs_stable_baseurl }} {% else %} {{ site.statefundocs_baseurl }} {% endif %})
  • [Configuration]({% link deployment/config.md %})
  • [Rest API]({% link ops/rest_api.md %})
  • [CLI]({% link deployment/cli.md %})

Deploy Flink

Before putting your Flink job into production, read the [Production Readiness Checklist]({% link ops/production_ready.md %}). For an overview of possible deployment targets, see [Clusters and Deployments]({% link deployment/resource-providers/index.md %}).

Upgrade Flink

Release notes cover important changes between Flink versions. Please read them carefully if you plan to upgrade your Flink setup.

See the release notes for [Flink 1.12]({% link release-notes/flink-1.12.md %}), [Flink 1.11]({% link release-notes/flink-1.11.md %}), [Flink 1.10]({% link release-notes/flink-1.10.md %}), [Flink 1.9]({% link release-notes/flink-1.9.md %}), [Flink 1.8]({% link release-notes/flink-1.8.md %}), or [Flink 1.7]({% link release-notes/flink-1.7.md %}).