Pulsar Function CRD configurations

This document lists CRD configurations available for Pulsar Functions. The CRD configurations for Pulsar Functions consist of Function configurations and common CRD configurations.

Function configurations

This table lists Pulsar Function configurations.

Field	Description
name	The function name is a string of up to 43 characters.
classname	The class name of a Pulsar Function.
tenant	The tenant of a Pulsar Function.
namespace	The Pulsar namespace of a Pulsar Function.
clusterName	The Pulsar cluster of a Pulsar Function.
replicas	The number of instances that you want to run this Pulsar Function. If no value is set, the system will set it to 1.
minReplicas	The minimum number of instances that you want to run for this Pulsar function. If no value is set, the system will set it to 1. When HPA auto-scaling is enabled, the HPA controller scales the Pods up / down based on the values of the minReplicas and maxReplicas options. The number of the Pods should be greater than the value of the minReplicas and be smaller than the value of the maxReplicas.
downloaderImage	The image of the init container that is used to download a package from Pulsar if the download path is specified. By default, the downloaderImage is an official pulsarctl image.
maxReplicas	The maximum number of instances that you want to run for this Pulsar function. When the value of the maxReplicas parameter is greater than the value of replicas, it indicates that the Functions controller automatically scales the Pulsar Functions based on the CPU usage. By default, maxReplicas is set to 0, which indicates that auto-scaling is disabled.
timeout	The message timeout in milliseconds.
deadLetterTopic	The topic where all messages that were not processed successfully are sent. This parameter is not supported in Python Functions.
funcConfig	Pulsar Functions configurations in YAML format.
logTopic	The topic to which the logs of a Pulsar Function are produced.
autoAck	Whether or not the framework acknowledges messages automatically. This field is required. You can set it to true or false.
maxMessageRetry	How many times to process a message before giving up.
processingGuarantee	The processing guarantees (delivery semantics) applied to the function. Available values: atleast_once, atmost_once, effectively_once.
forwardSourceMessageProperty	Configure whether to pass message properties to a target topic.
retainOrdering	Function consumes and processes messages in order.
retainKeyOrdering	Configure whether to retain the key order of messages.
subscriptionName	Pulsar Functions' subscription name if you want a specific subscription name for the input-topic consumer.
cleanupSubscription	Configure whether to clean up subscriptions.
subscriptionPosition	The subscription position.
pulsar	The configurations of the Pulsar cluster. For details, see messaging.

Annotations

In Kubernetes, an annotation defines an unstructured Key Value Map (KVM) that can be set by external tools to store and retrieve metadata. annotations must be a map of string keys and string values. Annotation values must pass Kubernetes annotations validation. For details, see Kubernetes documentation on Annotations.

This example shows how to use an annotation to make an object unmanaged. Therefore, the Controller will skip reconciling unmanaged objects in reconciliation loop.

apiVersion: compute.functionmesh.io/v1alpha1
kind: Function
metadata:
  annotations:
    compute.functionmesh.io/managed: "false"

Images

This section describes image options available for Pulsar Function, source, sink and Function Mesh CRDs.

Base runner

The base runner is an image base for other runners. The base runner is located at ./pulsar-functions-base-runner. The base runner image contains basic tool-chains like /pulsar/bin, /pulsar/conf and /pulsar/lib to ensure that the pulsar-admin CLI tool works properly to support Apache Pulsar Packages.

Runner images

Function Mesh uses runner images as images of Pulsar functions and connectors. Each runner image only contains necessary tool-chains and libraries for specified runtime.

This table lists available Function runtime runner images.

Type	Description
Java runner	The Java runner is based on the base runner and contains the Java function instance to run Java functions or connectors. The streamnative/pulsar-functions-java-runner Java runner is stored at the Docker Hub and is automatically updated to align with Apache Pulsar release.
Python runner	The Python runner is based on the base runner and contains the Python function instance to run Python functions. You can build your own Python runner to customize Python dependencies. The streamnative/pulsar-functions-python-runner Python runner is located at the Docker Hub and is automatically updated to align with Apache Pulsar release.
Golang runner	The Golang runner provides all the tool-chains and dependencies required to run Golang functions. The streamnative/pulsar-functions-go-runner Golang runner is located at the Docker Hub and is automatically updated to align with Apache Pulsar release.

Image pull policies

When the Function Mesh Operator creates a container, it uses the imagePullPolicy option to determine whether the image should be pulled prior to starting the container. There are three possible values for the imagePullPolicy option:

Field	Description
Always	Always pull the image.
Never	Never pull the image.
IfNotPresent	Only pull the image if the image does not already exist locally.

Messaging

Function Mesh provides Pulsar cluster configurations in the Function, Source, and Sink CRDs. You can configure TLS encryption, TLS authentication, and OAuth2 authentication using the following configurations.

Note

The tlsConfig and tlsSecret are exclusive. If you configure TLS configurations, the TLS Secret will not take effect.

Field	Description
authConfig	The authentication configurations of the Pulsar cluster. Currently, you can only configure OAuth2 authentication through this field. For other authentication methods, you can configure them using the authSecret field. audience: specify the OAuth2 resource server identifier for the Pulsar cluster. issuerUrl: specify the URL of the OAuth2 identity provider that allows a Pulsar client to obtain an access token. scope: specify the scope of an access request. For more information, see access token scope. keySecretName: specify the name of the Kubernetes Secret. keySecretKey: specify the key of the Kubernetes Secret that contains the content of the OAuth2 private key.
authSecret	The name of the authentication ConfigMap that stores authentication configurations of the Pulsar cluster. clientAuthenticationPlugin: specify the client authentication plugin. clientAuthenticationParameters: specify the client authentication parameters.
pulsarConfig	The name of the ConfigMap that stores Pulsar cluster configurations. webServiceURL: specify the web service URL for managing the Pulsar cluster. This URL should be a standard DNS name. brokerServiceURL: specify the Pulsar protocol URL for interaction with the brokers in the Pulsar cluster. This URL should not use the same DNS name as the web service URL but should use the pulsar scheme.
tlsConfig	The TLS configurations of the Pulsar cluster. allowInsecure: allow insecure TLS connection. certSecretKey: specify the TLS Secret key. certSecretName: specify the TLS Secret name. enabled: enable TLS configurations. hostnameVerification: enable hostname verification.
tlsSecret	The name of the TLS ConfigMap that stores TLS configurations of the Pulsar cluster. tlsAllowInsecureConnection: allow insecure TLS connection. By default, it is set to false. tlsHostnameVerificationEnable: enable hostname verification. By default, it is set to true. tlsTrustCertsFilePath: specify the path of the TLS trust certificate file.

State storage

Function Mesh provides the following fields for Stateful functions in the CRD definition.

Field	Description
statefulConfig	The state storage configuration for the Stateful Functions.
statefulConfig.pulsar.serviceUrl	The service URL that points to the state storage service. By default, the state storage service is the BookKeeper table service.
statefulConfig.pulsar.javaProvider	(Optional) If you want to overwrite the default configuration, you can use the state storage configuration for the Java runtime. For example, you can change it to other backend services other than the BookKeeper table service.
statefulConfig.pulsar.javaProvider.className	The Java class name of the state storage provider implementation. The class must implement the org.apache.pulsar.functions.instance.state.StateStoreProvider interface. If not, org.apache.pulsar.functions.instance.state.BKStateStoreProviderImpl will be used.
statefulConfig.pulsar.javaProvider.config	The configurations that are passed to the state storage provider.

Window function configurations

Function Mesh provides the following fields for window functions in the CRD definition.

Field	Description
actualWindowFunctionClassName	Optional. The runner class name of the implemented window function. By default, the value is the same as the spec.className.
lateDataTopic	Optional. The late data topic for the late tuple messages. The late data topic must be defined when specifying a timestamp extractor class (timestampExtractorClassName).
maxLagMs	Optional. The maximum lag duration (in milliseconds) of the window function. By default, it is set to 0.
slidingIntervalCount	Optional. The number of messages before the window slides.
slidingIntervalDurationMs	Optional. The time duration (in milliseconds) after which the window slides.
timestampExtractorClassName	Optional. The timestamp extractor class name. It should be set to org.apache.pulsar.functions.windowing.TimestampExtractor.
watermarkEmitIntervalMs	Optional. The watermark interval (in milliseconds) of the window function. By default, it is set to 1000 ms.
windowLengthCount	Optional. The number of messages per window.
windowLengthDurationMs	Optional. The time duration (in milliseconds) of the window.

Input

The input topics of a Pulsar Function. The following table lists options available for the Input.

Field	Description
topics	The configuration of the topic from which messages are fetched.
customSerdeSources	The map of input topics to SerDe class names (as a JSON string).
customSchemaSources	The map of input topics to Schema class names (as a JSON string).
sourceSpecs	The map of source specifications to consumer specifications. Consumer specifications include these options: - SchemaType: the built-in schema type or custom schema class name to be used for messages fetched by the function. - SerdeClassName: the SerDe class to be used for messages fetched by the function. - IsRegexPattern: configure whether the input topic adopts a Regex pattern. - SchemaProperties: the schema properties for messages fetched by the function. - ConsumerProperties: the consumer properties for messages fetched by the function. - ReceiverQueueSize: the size of the consumer receive queue. br /> - cryptoConfig: cryptography configurations of the consumer.

Output

The output topics of a Pulsar Function. This table lists options available for the Output.

Name	Description
topics	The output topic of a Pulsar Function (If none is specified, no output is written).
sinkSerdeClassName	The map of output topics to SerDe class names (as a JSON string).
sinkSchemaType	The built-in schema type or custom schema class name to be used for messages sent by the function.
producerConf	The producer specifications. Available options: < br />- maxPendingMessages: the maximum number of pending messages. - maxPendingMessagesAcrossPartitions: the maximum number of pending messages across partitions. - useThreadLocalProducers: configure whether the producer uses a thread. - cryptoConfig: cryptography configurations of the producer. - batchBuilder: support key-based batcher.
customSchemaSinks	The map of output topics to Schema class names (as a JSON string).

Resources

When you specify a function or connector, you can optionally specify how much of each resource they need. The resources available to specify are CPU and memory (RAM).

If the node where a Pod is running has enough of a resource available, it's possible (and allowed) for a pod to use more resources than its request for that resource specifies. However, a pod is not allowed to use more than its resource limit.

Secrets

Function Mesh provides the secretsMap field for Function, Source, and Sink in the CRD definition. You can refer to the created secrets under the same namespace and the controller can include those referred secrets. The secrets are provide by EnvironmentBasedSecretsProvider, which can be used by context.getSecret() in Pulsar functions and connectors.

The secretsMap field is defined as a Map struct with String keys and SecretReference values. The key indicates the environment value in the container, and the SecretReference is defined as below.

Field	Description
path	The name of the secret in the Pod's namespace to select from.
key	The key of the secret to select from. It must be a valid secret key.

Suppose that there is a Kubernetes Secret named credential-secret defined as below:

apiVersion: v1
data:
  username: foo
  password: bar
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: credential-secret
type: Opaque

To use it in Pulsar Functions in a secure way, you can define the secretsMap in the Custom Resource:

secretsMap:
  username:
    path: credential-secret
    key: username
  password:
    path: credential-secret
    key: password

Then, in the Pulsar Functions and Connectors, you can call context.getSecret("username") to get the secret value (foo).

Packages

Function Mesh supports running Pulsar Functions in Java, Python and Go. This table lists fields available for running Pulsar Functions in different languages.

Field	Description
jarLocation	The path to the JAR file for the function. It is only available for Pulsar functions written in Java.
javaOpts	It specifies JVM options to better configure JVM behaviors, including exitOnOOMError, Garbage Collection logs, Garbage Collection tuning, and so on.
goLocation	The path to the JAR file for the function. It is only available for Pulsar functions written in Go.
pyLocation	The path to the JAR file for the function. It is only available for Pulsar functions written in Python.
extraDependenciesDir	It specifies the dependent directory for the JAR package.

Log levels

By default, the log level for Pulsar functions is info. Function Mesh supports setting multiple log levels for Pulsar functions.

Notes

The log levels are only available for the Go runtime 2.11 or higher.

Critical	Description	Java runtime	Python runtime	Go runtime
off	Nothing will be logged.	✔	✗	✗
trace	The logs that contain the most detailed messages.	✔	✔	✔
debug	The logs that are used for interactive investigation during development. These logs primarily contain information useful for debugging and have no long-term value.	✔	✔	✔
warn	The logs that highlight an abnormal or unexpected event in the function, but do not cause the function to stop.	✔	✔	✔
error	The logs that highlight when the function is stopped due to a failure. These indicate a failure in the current activity, not an application-wide failure.	✔	✔	✔
fatal	The logs that contain fatal errors. It indicates that the function is unusable.	✔	✔	✔
all	All events are logged.	✔	✗	✗
panic	It indicates the function is in panic.	✗	✗	✔

For details about how to set log levels and produce logs for Pulsar functions, see produce function logs.

Log rotation policies

With more and more logs being written to the log file, the log file grows in size. Therefore, Function Mesh supports log rotation to avoid large files that could create issues when opening them. You can set the log rotation policies based on the time or the log file size.

Field	Description
TimedPolicyWithDaily	Rotate the log file daily.
TimedPolicyWithWeekly	Rotate the log file weekly.
TimedPolicyWithMonthly	Rotate the log file monthly.
SizedPolicyWith10MB	Rotate the log file at every 10 MB.
SizedPolicyWith50MB	Rotate the log file at every 50 MB.
SizedPolicyWith100MB	Rotate the log file at every 100 MB.

For details about how to set a log rotation policy, see set log rotation policies.

Cluster location

In Function Mesh, the Pulsar cluster is defined through a ConfigMap. Pods can consume ConfigMaps as environment variables in a volume. The Pulsar cluster ConfigMap defines the Pulsar cluster URLs.

Field	Description
webServiceURL	The Web service URL of the Pulsar cluster.
brokerServiceURL	The broker service URL of the Pulsar cluster.

Health checks

Note

To enable health checks, you need to create a PVC and a PV, and bind the PVC to the PV. Then, you can use the --set controllerManager.grpcurlPersistentVolumeClaim=<your_pvc_name> option to specify the PVC when installing the Function Mesh Operator.

With the Kubernetes liveness probe, Function Mesh supports monitoring and acting on the state of Pods (Containers) to ensure that only healthy Pods serve traffic. Implementing health checks using probes provides Function Mesh a solid foundation, better reliability, and higher uptime.

apiVersion: compute.functionmesh.io/v1alpha1
kind: Function
metadata:
  name: health-check-sample
  namespace: default
spec:
  image: streamnative/pulsar-functions-java-sample:2.9.2.23
  className: org.apache.pulsar.functions.api.examples.ExclamationFunction
  forwardSourceMessageProperty: true
  maxPendingAsyncRequests: 1000
  replicas: 1
  maxReplicas: 5
  liveness:
    initialDelaySeconds: 10        # --- [1]
    periodSeconds: 10              # --- [2]
  logTopic: persistent://public/default/logging-function-logs
... 
# Other configs

• initialDelaySeconds: specify the time that should wait before performing the first liveness probe.
• periodSeconds: specify the frequency to perform a liveness probe.

For more information about probe types, probe check mechanisms, and probe parameters, see Kubernetes documentation on Pod lifecycle and configure probes.

Pod specifications

Function Mesh supports customizing the Pod running function instance. This table lists sub-fields available for the pod field.

Field	Description
labels	Specify labels attached to a Pod.
liveness	Specify the liveness probe properties for a Pod. initialDelaySecond: specify the time that should wait before performing the first liveness probe. periodSeconds: specify the frequency to perform a liveness probe. For details, see health checks.
nodeSelector	Specify a map of key-value pairs. For a Pod running on a node, the node must have each of the indicated key-value pairs as labels.
affinity	Specify the scheduling constraints of a Pod.
tolerations	Specify the tolerations of a Pod.
annotations	Specify the annotations attached to a Pod.
securityContext	Specify the security context for a Pod.
terminationGracePeriodSeconds	The amount of time that Kubernetes gives for a Pod before terminating it.
volumes	A list of volumes that can be mounted by containers belonging to a Pod.
imagePullSecrets	An optional list of references to secrets in the same namespace for pulling any of the images used by a Pod.
serviceAccountName	Specify the name of the service account that is used to run Pulsar Functions or connectors.
initContainers	The initialization containers belonging to a Pod. A typical use case could be using an initialization container to download a remote JAR to a local path.
sidecars	Sidecar containers run together with the main function container in a Pod.
builtinAutoscaler	Specify the built-in autoscaling rules. CPU-based autoscaling: auto-scale the number of Pods based on the CPU usage (80%, 50%, or 20%). Memory-based autoscaling: auto-scale the number of Pods based on the memory usage (80%, 50%, or 20%). If you configure the builtinAutoscaler field, you do not need to configure the autoScalingMetrics and autoScalingBehavior options and vice versa.
autoScalingMetrics	Specify how to scale based on customized metrics defined in connectors. For details, see MetricSpec v2 autoscaling.
autoScalingBehavior	Configure the scaling behavior of the target in both up and down directions (scaleUp and scaleDown fields respectively). If not specified, the default Kubernetes scaling behaviors are adopted. For details, see HorizontalPodAutoscalerBehavior v2 autoscaling.
vpa	Configure the behavior of the Vertical Pod Autoscaling (VPA). It contains two fields: updatePolicy: define the policy for updating Pods. resourcePolicy: define the resource policy for each container.
env	Specify the environment variables to expose on the containers. It is a key/value map. You can either use the value option to specify a particular value for the environment variable or use the valueFrom option to specify the source for the environment variable's value, as shown below. ```yaml env: - name: example1 value: simpleValue - name: example2 valueFrom: secretKeyRef: name: secret-name key: akey ```