Licensing

CSA Operator requires a valid license to function. Licenses are made available for you, together with your Cloudera credentials, as part of your license and subscription agreement with Cloudera.

Licenses are registered during CSA Operator installation. They are stored in a Kubernetes secret. Licenses can be updated at any time.

Licenses are valid for a set period of time. Once the license expires, the cluster resources you deployed will continue to run, but reconciliation of resources will be blocked. For example: failed pods will not be restarted and scaling your clusters will not be possible. In general, the control mechanisms in place that keep resources healthy will be blocked. This will result in deployed resources breaking down over time.

CSA Operator publishes various log entries and Kubernetes events related to your licenses.

For example, if your license expires or becomes invalid for any reason, relevant logs and events published will notify you that there are issues with your license.

These logs and events are published for the Flink Operator deployment. You can check these logs and events with the following commands:

kubectl events deployments/csa-operator --namespace [***NAMESPACE***]

kubectl logs deployment/csa-operator --namespace [***NAMESPACE***]