id: functions-deploy-cluster-parallelism title: Enable parallel processing sidebar_label: “Enable parallel processing”

In cluster mode, you can specify the parallelism (the number of instances to run) to enable parallel processing for a function.

Example1

Specify the --parallelism flag of the create command when deploying a function.

bin/pulsar-admin functions create \
  --parallelism 3 \
  # Other function info

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For an existing function, you can adjust the parallelism by using the update command.

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Example2

Specify the parallelism parameter when deploying a function configuration through YAML.

# function-config.yaml
parallelism: 3
inputs:
  - persistent://public/default/input-1
output: persistent://public/default/output-1
# other parameters

For an existing function, you can adjust the parallelism by using the update command as follows.

bin/pulsar-admin functions update \
  --function-config-file function-config.yaml