May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
596 pages
15h 2m
English
Task Manager is the worker node where the tasks are finally executed. It contains multiple task slots in which it executes the tasks as specified/demanded by the Job Manager.
The following figure shows the anatomy of the Task Manager. It shows multiple workers task nodes showing that this component is usually more than one in a typical deployment:

The following figure shows all these components in the Flink architecture in action, but unlike the previous high-level image, this details each components and its interaction: