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Get Flink up and running in a few simple steps.

## Requirements

Flink runs on __Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows__. To be able to run Flink, the
only requirement is to have a working __Java 6.x__ (or higher)
installation. Windows users, please take a look at the
[Flink on Windows](local_setup.html#flink-on-windows) guide which describes
how to run Flink on Windows for local setups.

## Download
Download the ready to run binary package. Choose the Flink distribution that __matches your Hadoop version__. If you are unsure which version to choose or you just want to run locally, pick the package for Hadoop 1.2.

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## Start
  
1. Go to the download directory.
2. Unpack the downloaded archive.
3. Start Flink.


~~~bash
$ cd ~/Downloads        # Go to download directory
$ tar xzf flink-*.tgz   # Unpack the downloaded archive
$ cd flink-{{site.FLINK_VERSION_SHORT}}
$ bin/start-local.sh    # Start Flink
~~~

Check the __JobManager's web frontend__ at [http://localhost:8081](http://localhost:8081) and make
sure everything is up and running.

## Run Example

Run the __Word Count example__ to see Flink at work.

* __Download test data__:

  ~~~bash
  $ wget -O hamlet.txt http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1787/pg1787.txt
  ~~~ 

* You now have a text file called _hamlet.txt_ in your working directory.
* __Start the example program__:
  
  ~~~bash
  $ bin/flink run ./examples/flink-java-examples-{{site.FLINK_VERSION_SHORT}}-WordCount.jar file://`pwd`/hamlet.txt file://`pwd`/wordcount-result.txt
  ~~~

* You will find a file called __wordcount-result.txt__ in your current directory.
  

## Cluster Setup
  
__Running Flink on a cluster__ is as easy as running it locally. Having __passwordless SSH__ and
__the same directory structure__ on all your cluster nodes lets you use our scripts to control
everything.

1. Copy the unpacked __flink__ directory from the downloaded archive to the same file system path
on each node of your setup.
2. Choose a __master node__ (JobManager) and set the `jobmanager.rpc.address` key in
`conf/flink-conf.yaml` to its IP or hostname. Make sure that all nodes in your cluster have the same
`jobmanager.rpc.address` configured.
3. Add the IPs or hostnames (one per line) of all __worker nodes__ (TaskManager) to the slaves files
in `conf/slaves`.

You can now __start the cluster__ at your master node with `bin/start-cluster.sh`.


The following __example__ illustrates the setup with three nodes (with IP addresses from _10.0.0.1_
to _10.0.0.3_ and hostnames _master_, _worker1_, _worker2_) and shows the contents of the
configuration files, which need to be accessible at the same path on all machines:

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      /path/to/<strong>flink/conf/<br>flink-conf.yaml</strong>
    <pre>jobmanager.rpc.address: 10.0.0.1</pre>
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    /path/to/<strong>flink/<br>conf/slaves</strong>
  <pre>
10.0.0.2
10.0.0.3</pre>
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Have a look at the [Configuration](config.html) section of the documentation to see other available configuration options.
For Flink to run efficiently, a few configuration values need to be set.

In particular, 

 * the amount of available memory per TaskManager (`taskmanager.heap.mb`), 
 * the number of available CPUs per machine (`taskmanager.numberOfTaskSlots`),
 * the total number of CPUs in the cluster (`parallelization.degree.default`) and 
 * the temporary directories (`taskmanager.tmp.dirs`)


are very important configuration values.

## Flink on YARN
You can easily deploy Flink on your existing __YARN cluster__. 

1. Download the __Flink YARN package__ with the YARN client: [Flink for YARN]({{site.FLINK_DOWNLOAD_URL_YARN_STABLE}})
2. Make sure your __HADOOP_HOME__ (or _YARN_CONF_DIR_ or _HADOOP_CONF_DIR_) __environment variable__ is set to read your YARN and HDFS configuration.
3. Run the __YARN client__ with: `./bin/yarn-session.sh`. You can run the client with options `-n 10 -tm 8192` to allocate 10 TaskManagers with 8GB of memory each.

For __more detailed instructions__, check out the programming Guides and examples.