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Apache Flink – Setup/Installation

Before the start with the setup/ installation of Apache Flink, let us check whether we have Java 8 installed in our system.

Java – version

We will now proceed by downloading Apache Flink.

wget http://mirrors.estointernet.in/apache/flink/flink-1.7.1/flink-1.7.1-bin-scala_2.11.tgz

Now, uncompress the tar file.

tar -xzf flink-1.7.1-bin-scala_2.11.tgz

Go to Flink”s home directory.

cd flink-1.7.1/

Start the Flink Cluster.

./bin/start-cluster.sh

Open the Mozilla browser and go to the below URL, it will open the Flink Web Dashboard.

http://localhost:8081

This is how the User Interface of Apache Flink Dashboard looks like.

Now the Flink cluster is up and running.