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Dagonvlg
Dagonvlg
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April 24, 2026
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Running NiFi 2.8 in stateless mode

Previously we used NiFi 1.24, running it in OpenShift containers via the entrypoint "./bin/nifi.sh stateless...". Now I'm trying to migrate the dataflow to version 2.8.0 and am encountering an error - the "stateless" parameter for nifi.sh is now missing. I read all the documentation in the NIFI release notes and did not find information about this anywhere. Git still says that you can run it this way (nifi-stateless-assembly readme).
Tell me, is there any possibility to run the NiFi 2.8.0 distribution via the console in stateless mode? How to use a separate nifi-stateless distribution?

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vafs
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April 24, 2026

Hello @Dagonvlg, 

As far as I know, NiFi 2 does not have a stateless mode to the entire service. 
That was removed. 

But what it offers is an stateless engine. You can configure it at Processor Group level: 
https://nifi.apache.org/nifi-docs/user-guide.html#stateless-execution-engine 

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    Dagonvlg
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    April 27, 2026

    Hello @vafs, 
    How to use nifi-stateless-2.8.0-bin.zip in this case? As I understand it, it contains everything that was removed from the main distribution nifi-2.8.0-bin.zip (i.e. stateless.properties)
    Readme has not been updated for three years (https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/rel/nifi-2.9.0/nifi-stateless/nifi-stateless-assembly/README.md#running-stateless-nifi), it still says that you can run it as a entire service


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    vafs
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    May 6, 2026

    Hello @Dagonvlg, 

    The best option should be on NiFi UI, in that way you can execute it as stateless: 

    vafs_0-1778101602076.png

    https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.apache.nifi/nifi-stateless-processor-nar/1.28.0/org.apache.nifi.processors.stateless.ExecuteStateless/index.html 

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    May 8, 2026

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