Deploy and manage functions worker
Before using Pulsar Functions, you need to learn how to set up Pulsar Functions worker and how to configure Functions runtime.
Pulsar functions-worker
is a logic component to run Pulsar Functions in cluster mode. Two options are available, and you can select either based on your requirements.
- run with brokers
- run it separately in a different broker
The --- Service Urls---
lines in the following diagrams represent Pulsar service URLs that Pulsar client and admin use to connect to a Pulsar cluster.
Run Functions-worker with brokers​
The following diagram illustrates the deployment of functions-workers running along with brokers.
To enable functions-worker running as part of a broker, you need to set functionsWorkerEnabled
to true
in the broker.conf
file.
functionsWorkerEnabled=true
If the functionsWorkerEnabled
is set to true
, the functions-worker is started as part of a broker. You need to configure the conf/functions_worker.yml
file to customize your functions_worker.
Before you run Functions-worker with broker, you have to configure Functions-worker, and then start it with brokers.
Configure Functions-Worker to run with brokers​
In this mode, most of the settings are already inherited from your broker configuration (for example, configurationStore settings, authentication settings, and so on) since functions-worker
is running as part of the broker.
Pay attention to the following required settings when configuring functions-worker in this mode.
numFunctionPackageReplicas
: The number of replicas to store function packages. The default value is1
, which is good for standalone deployment. For production deployment, to ensure high availability, set it to be larger than2
.pulsarFunctionsCluster
: Set the value to your Pulsar cluster name (same as theclusterName
setting in the broker configuration).
If authentication is enabled on the BookKeeper cluster, configure the following BookKeeper authentication settings.
bookkeeperClientAuthenticationPlugin
: the BookKeeper client authentication plugin name.bookkeeperClientAuthenticationParametersName
: the BookKeeper client authentication plugin parameters name.bookkeeperClientAuthenticationParameters
: the BookKeeper client authentication plugin parameters.
Configure Stateful-Functions to run with broker​
If you want to use Stateful-Functions related functions (for example, putState()
and queryState()
related interfaces), follow steps below.
-
Enable the streamStorage service in the BookKeeper.
Currently, the service uses the NAR package, so you need to set the configuration in
bookkeeper.conf
.
extraServerComponents=org.apache.bookkeeper.stream.server.StreamStorageLifecycleComponentAfter starting bookie, use the following methods to check whether the streamStorage service is started correctly.
Input:
telnet localhost 4181Output:
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'. -
Turn on this function in
functions_worker.yml
.
stateStorageServiceUrl: bk://<bk-service-url>:4181bk-service-url
is the service URL pointing to the BookKeeper table service.
Start Functions-worker with broker​
Once you have configured the functions_worker.yml
file, you can start or restart your broker.
And then you can use the following command to verify if functions-worker
is running well.
curl <broker-ip>:8080/admin/v2/worker/cluster
After entering the command above, a list of active function workers in the cluster is returned. The output is similar to the following.
[{"workerId":"<worker-id>","workerHostname":"<worker-hostname>","port":8080}]
Run Functions-worker separately​
This section illustrates how to run functions-worker
as a separate process in separate machines.
In this mode, make sure functionsWorkerEnabled
is set to false
, so you won't start functions-worker
with brokers by mistake.
Configure Functions-worker to run separately​
To run function-worker separately, you have to configure the following parameters.
Worker parameters​
workerId
: The type is string. It is unique across clusters, which is used to identify a worker machine.workerHostname
: The hostname of the worker machine.workerPort
: The port that the worker server listens on. Keep it as default if you don't customize it.workerPortTls
: The TLS port that the worker server listens on. Keep it as default if you don't customize it.
Function package parameter​
numFunctionPackageReplicas
: The number of replicas to store function packages. The default value is1
.
Function metadata parameter​
pulsarServiceUrl
: The Pulsar service URL for your broker cluster.pulsarWebServiceUrl
: The Pulsar web service URL for your broker cluster.pulsarFunctionsCluster
: Set the value to your Pulsar cluster name (same as theclusterName
setting in the broker configuration).
If authentication is enabled for your broker cluster, you should configure the authentication plugin and parameters for the functions worker to communicate with the brokers.
clientAuthenticationPlugin
clientAuthenticationParameters
Security settings​
If you want to enable security on functions workers, you should:
Enable TLS transport encryption​
To enable TLS transport encryption, configure the following settings.
useTLS: true
pulsarServiceUrl: pulsar+ssl://localhost:6651/
pulsarWebServiceUrl: https://localhost:8443
tlsEnabled: true
tlsCertificateFilePath: /path/to/functions-worker.cert.pem
tlsKeyFilePath: /path/to/functions-worker.key-pk8.pem
tlsTrustCertsFilePath: /path/to/ca.cert.pem
// The path to trusted certificates used by the Pulsar client to authenticate with Pulsar brokers
brokerClientTrustCertsFilePath: /path/to/ca.cert.pem
For details on TLS encryption, refer to Transport Encryption using TLS.
Enable Authentication Provider​
To enable authentication on Functions Worker, you need to configure the following settings.
Substitute the providers list with the providers you want to enable.
authenticationEnabled: true
authenticationProviders: [ provider1, provider2 ]
For TLS Authentication provider, follow the example below to add the necessary settings. See TLS Authentication for more details.
brokerClientAuthenticationPlugin: org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.auth.AuthenticationTls
brokerClientAuthenticationParameters: tlsCertFile:/path/to/admin.cert.pem,tlsKeyFile:/path/to/admin.key-pk8.pem
authenticationEnabled: true
authenticationProviders: ['org.apache.pulsar.broker.authentication.AuthenticationProviderTls']
For SASL Authentication provider, add saslJaasClientAllowedIds
and saslJaasBrokerSectionName
under properties
if needed.
properties:
saslJaasClientAllowedIds: .*pulsar.*
saslJaasBrokerSectionName: Broker
For Token Authentication provider, add necessary settings for properties
if needed.
See Token Authentication for more details.
properties:
tokenSecretKey: file://my/secret.key
# If using public/private
# tokenPublicKey: file:///path/to/public.key
Enable Authorization Provider​
To enable authorization on Functions Worker, you need to configure authorizationEnabled
, authorizationProvider
and configurationStoreServers
. The authentication provider connects to configurationStoreServers
to receive namespace policies.
authorizationEnabled: true
authorizationProvider: org.apache.pulsar.broker.authorization.PulsarAuthorizationProvider
configurationStoreServers: <configuration-store-servers>
You should also configure a list of superuser roles. The superuser roles are able to access any admin API. The following is a configuration example.
superUserRoles:
- role1
- role2
- role3
BookKeeper Authentication​
If authentication is enabled on the BookKeeper cluster, you need configure the BookKeeper authentication settings as follows:
bookkeeperClientAuthenticationPlugin
: the plugin name of BookKeeper client authentication.bookkeeperClientAuthenticationParametersName
: the plugin parameters name of BookKeeper client authentication.bookkeeperClientAuthenticationParameters
: the plugin parameters of BookKeeper client authentication.
Start Functions-worker​
Once you have finished configuring the functions_worker.yml
configuration file, you can use the following command to start a functions-worker
:
bin/pulsar functions-worker
Configure Proxies for Functions-workers​
When you are running functions-worker
in a separate cluster, the admin rest endpoints are split into two clusters. functions
, function-worker
, source
and sink
endpoints are now served
by the functions-worker
cluster, while all the other remaining endpoints are served by the broker cluster.
Hence you need to configure your pulsar-admin
to use the right service URL accordingly.
In order to address this inconvenience, you can start a proxy cluster for routing the admin rest requests accordingly. Hence you will have one central entry point for your admin service.
If you already have a proxy cluster, continue reading. If you haven't setup a proxy cluster before, you can follow the instructions to start proxies.
To enable routing functions related admin requests to functions-worker
in a proxy, you can edit the proxy.conf
file to modify the following settings:
functionWorkerWebServiceURL=<pulsar-functions-worker-web-service-url>
functionWorkerWebServiceURLTLS=<pulsar-functions-worker-web-service-url>
Compare the Run-with-Broker and Run-separately modes​
As described above, you can run Function-worker with brokers, or run it separately. And it is more convenient to run functions-workers along with brokers. However, running functions-workers in a separate cluster provides better resource isolation for running functions in Process
or Thread
mode.
Use which mode for your cases, refer to the following guidelines to determine.
Use the Run-with-Broker
mode in the following cases:
- a) if resource isolation is not required when running functions in
Process
orThread
mode; - b) if you configure the functions-worker to run functions on Kubernetes (where the resource isolation problem is addressed by Kubernetes).
Use the Run-separately
mode in the following cases:
- a) you don't have a Kubernetes cluster;
- b) if you want to run functions and brokers separately.
Troubleshooting​
Error message: Namespace missing local cluster name in clusters list
Failed to get partitioned topic metadata: org.apache.pulsar.client.api.PulsarClientException$BrokerMetadataException: Namespace missing local cluster name in clusters list: local_cluster=xyz ns=public/functions clusters=[standalone]
The error message prompts when either of the cases occurs:
- a) a broker is started with
functionsWorkerEnabled=true
, but thepulsarFunctionsCluster
is not set to the correct cluster in theconf/functions_worker.yaml
file; - b) setting up a geo-replicated Pulsar cluster with
functionsWorkerEnabled=true
, while brokers in one cluster run well, brokers in the other cluster do not work well.
Workaround
If any of these cases happens, follow the instructions below to fix the problem:
-
Disable Functions Worker by setting
functionsWorkerEnabled=false
, and restart brokers. -
Get the current clusters list of
public/functions
namespace.
bin/pulsar-admin namespaces get-clusters public/functions
- Check if the cluster is in the clusters list. If the cluster is not in the list, add it to the list and update the clusters list.
bin/pulsar-admin namespaces set-clusters --clusters <existing-clusters>,<new-cluster> public/functions
-
After setting the cluster successfully, enable functions worker by setting
functionsWorkerEnabled=true
. -
Set the correct cluster name in
pulsarFunctionsCluster
in theconf/functions_worker.yml
file, and restart brokers.