A practical guide to deploying Apache Flink on Kubernetes using the official Flink Kubernetes Operator. Covers setting up a local kind cluster, installing the operator via Helm, configuring MinIO for S3-compatible storage, and deploying Flink jobs using FlinkDeployment custom resources. Explains application vs session mode, demonstrates scaling jobs by changing parallelism, and walks through building custom container images for your own Flink job JARs. Part one of a two-part series.
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