Feature request: Start/stop Kinesis Analytics Flink applications

[ewbankkit]

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Description

From #11652:

@ewbankkit @blake-wilson Hey, I was just wondering if it would be appropriate to include a call to StartApplication (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/api/service/kinesisanalyticsv2/#KinesisAnalyticsV2.StartApplication) as part of this resource or does it make more sense to have some other resource perhaps aws_kinesisanalyticsv2_application_start or something where creating the resource calls start and deleting it calls stop.

The reason I am asking is because I would ideally like to be able to create and start an Apache Flink Kinesis application entirely with terraform.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_kinesisanalyticsv2_application

Potential Terraform Configuration

#TBD but should match similar feature for aws_kinesis_analytics_application.

References

• Support Apache Flink runtime for Kinesis Analytics #11652
• Feature Request: Kinesis Data Analytics StartApplication #7383

API reference.
Running applications.
Snapshots.

[tedivm]

Honestly the fact that this isn't setup yet should be considered a bug. Right now it is literally impossible to use terraform to launch a working pipeline that includes flink because while terraform can do all the work setting it up, terraform unfortunately leaves it in an unusable state until manual intervention occurs.

[ewbankkit]

@tedivm Do you have the use case of starting from a savepoint/snapshot?

[tedivm]

@ewbankkit - I don't really, our systems would just start reprocessing the backups in the case of a crash.

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