diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..36178e2bebdac96b8648bd6c299009aa49d3fff6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: flink-config
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+data:
+  flink-conf.yaml: |+
+    jobmanager.rpc.address: flink-jobmanager
+    taskmanager.numberOfTaskSlots: 1 #TODO
+    #blob.server.port: 6124
+    #jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+    #taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+    #queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+    #jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+    #taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+    #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+    metrics.reporter.prom.class: org.apache.flink.metrics.prometheus.PrometheusReporter
+    metrics.reporter.prom.interval: 10 SECONDS
+    taskmanager.network.detailed-metrics: true
+  # -> gives metrics about inbound/outbound network queue lengths
+  log4j-console.properties: |+
+    # This affects logging for both user code and Flink
+    rootLogger.level = INFO
+    rootLogger.appenderRef.console.ref = ConsoleAppender
+    rootLogger.appenderRef.rolling.ref = RollingFileAppender
+
+    # Uncomment this if you want to _only_ change Flink's logging
+    #logger.flink.name = org.apache.flink
+    #logger.flink.level = INFO
+
+    # The following lines keep the log level of common libraries/connectors on
+    # log level INFO. The root logger does not override this. You have to manually
+    # change the log levels here.
+    logger.akka.name = akka
+    logger.akka.level = INFO
+    logger.kafka.name= org.apache.kafka
+    logger.kafka.level = INFO
+    logger.hadoop.name = org.apache.hadoop
+    logger.hadoop.level = INFO
+    logger.zookeeper.name = org.apache.zookeeper
+    logger.zookeeper.level = INFO
+
+    # Log all infos to the console
+    appender.console.name = ConsoleAppender
+    appender.console.type = CONSOLE
+    appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
+    appender.console.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p %-60c %x - %m%n
+
+    # Log all infos in the given rolling file
+    appender.rolling.name = RollingFileAppender
+    appender.rolling.type = RollingFile
+    appender.rolling.append = false
+    appender.rolling.fileName = ${sys:log.file}
+    appender.rolling.filePattern = ${sys:log.file}.%i
+    appender.rolling.layout.type = PatternLayout
+    appender.rolling.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p %-60c %x - %m%n
+    appender.rolling.policies.type = Policies
+    appender.rolling.policies.size.type = SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
+    appender.rolling.policies.size.size=100MB
+    appender.rolling.strategy.type = DefaultRolloverStrategy
+    appender.rolling.strategy.max = 10
+
+    # Suppress the irrelevant (wrong) warnings from the Netty channel handler
+    logger.netty.name = org.apache.flink.shaded.akka.org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline
+    logger.netty.level = OFF
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..512d4fe3c786e1b2c44e6ec57fccadf41a2e2eeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: flink
+      component: jobmanager
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: flink
+        component: jobmanager
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: jobmanager
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc1-flink:latest
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS
+              value: "100"
+            - name: CHECKPOINTING
+              value: "false"
+            - name: PARALLELISM
+              value: "1"
+            - name: "FLINK_STATE_BACKEND"
+              value: "rocksdb"
+            - name: JOB_MANAGER_RPC_ADDRESS
+              value: "flink-jobmanager"
+            - name: FLINK_PROPERTIES
+              value: |+
+                blob.server.port: 6124
+                jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+                taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+                queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+                jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+          args: ["standalone-job", "--job-classname", "theodolite.uc1.application.HistoryServiceFlinkJob"] # optional arguments: ["--job-id", "<job id>", "--fromSavepoint", "/path/to/savepoint", "--allowNonRestoredState"]
+          #command: ['sleep', '60m']
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 6123
+              name: rpc
+            - containerPort: 6124
+              name: blob-server
+            - containerPort: 8081
+              name: webui
+            - containerPort: 9249
+              name: metrics
+          livenessProbe:
+            tcpSocket:
+              port: 6123
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 60
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /opt/flink/conf
+#            - name: job-artifacts-volume
+#              mountPath: /opt/flink/usrlib
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 9999  # refers to user _flink_ from official flink image, change if necessary
+      initContainers:
+        - name: init-jobmanager
+          image: busybox:1.28
+          command: ['cp', '-a', '/flink-config/.', '/flink-config-rw/']
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume
+              mountPath: /flink-config/
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /flink-config-rw/
+      volumes:
+        - name: flink-config-volume
+          configMap:
+            name: flink-config
+            items:
+              - key: flink-conf.yaml
+                path: flink-conf.yaml
+              - key: log4j-console.properties
+                path: log4j-console.properties
+        - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+          emptyDir: {}
+#        - name: job-artifacts-volume
+#          hostPath:
+#            path: /host/path/to/job/artifacts
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d74aaf7f625c6922e2e1b4f20c19e50a39b68ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager-rest
+spec:
+  type: NodePort
+  ports:
+    - name: rest
+      port: 8081
+      targetPort: 8081
+      nodePort: 30081
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: jobmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2ff5d9898eb1ebf5db9a827472a47514ab1473c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - name: rpc
+      port: 6123
+    - name: blob-server
+      port: 6124
+    - name: webui
+      port: 8081
+    - name: metrics
+      port: 9249
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: jobmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/service-monitor.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/service-monitor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02f78823c627e27ddfe1db5eac3f6a7f7a7f1bf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/service-monitor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+    appScope: titan-ccp
+  name: flink
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+        app: flink
+  endpoints:
+    - port: metrics
+      interval: 10s
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7d46554692696b194736df6023eed5686040497d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: flink-taskmanager
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: flink
+      component: taskmanager
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: flink
+        component: taskmanager
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: taskmanager
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc1-flink:latest
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS
+              value: "100"
+            - name: CHECKPOINTING
+              value: "false"
+            - name: PARALLELISM
+              value: "1"
+            - name: "FLINK_STATE_BACKEND"
+              value: "rocksdb"
+            - name: JOB_MANAGER_RPC_ADDRESS
+              value: "flink-jobmanager"
+            - name: TASK_MANAGER_NUMBER_OF_TASK_SLOTS
+              value: "1" #TODO
+            - name: FLINK_PROPERTIES
+              value: |+
+                blob.server.port: 6124
+                jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+                taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+                queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+                jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+          args: ["taskmanager"]
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 6122
+              name: rpc
+            - containerPort: 6125
+              name: query-state
+            - containerPort: 9249
+              name: metrics
+          livenessProbe:
+            tcpSocket:
+              port: 6122
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 60
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /opt/flink/conf/
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 9999  # refers to user _flink_ from official flink image, change if necessary
+      initContainers:
+        - name: init-taskmanager
+          image: busybox:1.28
+          command: ['cp', '-a', '/flink-config/.', '/flink-config-rw/']
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume
+              mountPath: /flink-config/
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /flink-config-rw/
+      volumes:
+        - name: flink-config-volume
+          configMap:
+            name: flink-config
+            items:
+              - key: flink-conf.yaml
+                path: flink-conf.yaml
+              - key: log4j-console.properties
+                path: log4j-console.properties
+        - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+          emptyDir: {}
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2e27f64af1cfd1a26da142b8a50bb41c8ba5fcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-taskmanager
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - name: metrics
+      port: 9249
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: taskmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/config/example-operator-benchmark.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-benchmark-operator.yaml
similarity index 53%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/config/example-operator-benchmark.yaml
rename to theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-benchmark-operator.yaml
index 8f9af3e955fe18de26326b0094578a71517a5aef..b80b572dfd30e9c056d3c01ba17cc662d70fc749 100644
--- a/theodolite-quarkus/config/example-operator-benchmark.yaml
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-benchmark-operator.yaml
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ metadata:
 spec:
   appResource:
     - "uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
-    - "aggregation-service.yaml"
-    - "jmx-configmap.yaml"
+    - "uc1-kstreams-service.yaml"
+    - "uc1-jmx-configmap.yaml"
     - "uc1-service-monitor.yaml"
   loadGenResource:
     - "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
@@ -17,17 +17,17 @@ spec:
         - type: "ReplicaPatcher"
           resource: "uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
   loadTypes:
-      - typeName: "NumSensors"
-        patchers:
-          - type: "EnvVarPatcher"
-            resource: "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
-            properties:
-               variableName: "NUM_SENSORS"
-               container: "workload-generator"
-          - type: "NumSensorsLoadGeneratorReplicaPatcher"
-            resource: "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
-            properties:
-              loadGenMaxRecords: "15000"
+    - typeName: "NumSensors"
+      patchers:
+        - type: "EnvVarPatcher"
+          resource: "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+          properties:
+            container: "workload-generator"
+            variableName: "NUM_SENSORS"
+        - type: "NumSensorsLoadGeneratorReplicaPatcher"
+          resource: "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+          properties:
+            loadGenMaxRecords: "15000"
   kafkaConfig:
     bootstrapServer: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
     topics:
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ spec:
         numPartitions: 40
         replicationFactor: 1
       - name: "theodolite-.*"
-        removeOnly: True
\ No newline at end of file
+        removeOnly: True
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-benchmark-standalone.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-benchmark-standalone.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..12cbd8ea310423d28e35de8185288b27257c15ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-benchmark-standalone.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: "uc1-kstreams"
+appResource:
+  - "uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  - "uc1-kstreams-service.yaml"
+  - "uc1-jmx-configmap.yaml"
+  - "uc1-service-monitor.yaml"
+loadGenResource:
+  - "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+  - "uc1-load-generator-service.yaml"
+resourceTypes:
+  - typeName: "Instances"
+    patchers:
+      - type: "ReplicaPatcher"
+        resource: "uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+loadTypes:
+  - typeName: "NumSensors"
+    patchers:
+      - type: "EnvVarPatcher"
+        resource: "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+        container: "workload-generator"
+        variableName: "NUM_SENSORS"
+      - type: NumSensorsLoadGeneratorReplicaPatcher
+        resource: "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+        properties:
+          loadGenMaxRecords: "15000"
+kafkaConfig:
+  bootstrapServer: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+  topics:
+    - name: "input"
+      numPartitions: 40
+      replicationFactor: 1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-jmx-configmap.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-jmx-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78496a86b1242a89b9e844ead3e700fd0b9a9667
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-jmx-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: aggregation-jmx-configmap
+data:
+  jmx-kafka-prometheus.yml: |+
+    jmxUrl: service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:5555/jmxrmi
+    lowercaseOutputName: true
+    lowercaseOutputLabelNames: true
+    ssl: false
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..171c3446db2719ee91bd8954233015316851fcf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+    spec:
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
+      containers:
+        - name: uc-application
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc1-kstreams-app:latest
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5555
+              name: jmx
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: JAVA_OPTS
+              value: "-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=5555"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS # Set as default for the applications
+              value: "100"
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+        - name: prometheus-jmx-exporter
+          image: "solsson/kafka-prometheus-jmx-exporter@sha256:6f82e2b0464f50da8104acd7363fb9b995001ddff77d248379f8788e78946143"
+          command:
+            - java
+            - -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
+            - -XX:+UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap
+            - -XX:MaxRAMFraction=1
+            - -XshowSettings:vm
+            - -jar
+            - jmx_prometheus_httpserver.jar
+            - "5556"
+            - /etc/jmx-aggregation/jmx-kafka-prometheus.yml
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5556
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: jmx-config
+              mountPath: /etc/jmx-aggregation
+      volumes:
+        - name: jmx-config
+          configMap:
+            name: aggregation-jmx-configmap
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-kstreams-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-kstreams-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85432d04f225c30469f3232153ef6bd72bd02bdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-kstreams-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:  
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  #type: NodePort
+  selector:    
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  ports:  
+  - name: http
+    port: 80
+    targetPort: 80
+    protocol: TCP
+  - name: metrics
+    port: 5556
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9f9ccc6ae39407bb1f027e1e23cb152944b869e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-load-generator
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+    spec:
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
+      containers:
+        - name: workload-generator
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc1-workload-generator:latest
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5701
+              name: coordination
+          env:
+            - name: KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE
+              valueFrom:
+                fieldRef:
+                  fieldPath: metadata.namespace
+            - name: KUBERNETES_DNS_NAME
+              value: "titan-ccp-load-generator.$(KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE).svc.cluster.local"
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-load-generator-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-load-generator-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8b26b3f6dece427f9c1ad4db94e351b042749b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-load-generator-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  clusterIP: None
+  selector:
+    app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  ports:
+    - name: coordination
+      port: 5701
+      targetPort: 5701
+      protocol: TCP
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-service-monitor.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-service-monitor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e7e758cacb5086305efa26292ddef2afc958096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc1-kstreams/uc1-service-monitor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+    appScope: titan-ccp
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+        app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  endpoints:
+    - port: metrics
+      interval: 10s
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..321541f6ac8715b8546b964d8ad2b7c28552fbcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: flink-config
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+data:
+  flink-conf.yaml: |+
+    #jobmanager.rpc.address: flink-jobmanager
+    #taskmanager.numberOfTaskSlots: 1 #TODO
+    #blob.server.port: 6124
+    #jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+    #taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+    #queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+    #jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+    #taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+    #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+    metrics.reporter.prom.class: org.apache.flink.metrics.prometheus.PrometheusReporter
+    metrics.reporter.prom.interval: 10 SECONDS
+    taskmanager.network.detailed-metrics: true
+  # -> gives metrics about inbound/outbound network queue lengths
+  log4j-console.properties: |+
+    # This affects logging for both user code and Flink
+    rootLogger.level = INFO
+    rootLogger.appenderRef.console.ref = ConsoleAppender
+    rootLogger.appenderRef.rolling.ref = RollingFileAppender
+
+    # Uncomment this if you want to _only_ change Flink's logging
+    #logger.flink.name = org.apache.flink
+    #logger.flink.level = INFO
+
+    # The following lines keep the log level of common libraries/connectors on
+    # log level INFO. The root logger does not override this. You have to manually
+    # change the log levels here.
+    logger.akka.name = akka
+    logger.akka.level = INFO
+    logger.kafka.name= org.apache.kafka
+    logger.kafka.level = INFO
+    logger.hadoop.name = org.apache.hadoop
+    logger.hadoop.level = INFO
+    logger.zookeeper.name = org.apache.zookeeper
+    logger.zookeeper.level = INFO
+
+    # Log all infos to the console
+    appender.console.name = ConsoleAppender
+    appender.console.type = CONSOLE
+    appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
+    appender.console.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p %-60c %x - %m%n
+
+    # Log all infos in the given rolling file
+    appender.rolling.name = RollingFileAppender
+    appender.rolling.type = RollingFile
+    appender.rolling.append = false
+    appender.rolling.fileName = ${sys:log.file}
+    appender.rolling.filePattern = ${sys:log.file}.%i
+    appender.rolling.layout.type = PatternLayout
+    appender.rolling.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p %-60c %x - %m%n
+    appender.rolling.policies.type = Policies
+    appender.rolling.policies.size.type = SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
+    appender.rolling.policies.size.size=100MB
+    appender.rolling.strategy.type = DefaultRolloverStrategy
+    appender.rolling.strategy.max = 10
+
+    # Suppress the irrelevant (wrong) warnings from the Netty channel handler
+    logger.netty.name = org.apache.flink.shaded.akka.org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline
+    logger.netty.level = OFF
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cece4286d49a3f6ff139ca7f1e01c647acd5d9f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: flink
+      component: jobmanager
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: flink
+        component: jobmanager
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: jobmanager
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc2-flink:latest
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS
+              value: "100"
+            - name: CHECKPOINTING
+              value: "false"
+            - name: PARALLELISM
+              value: "1"
+            - name: "FLINK_STATE_BACKEND"
+              value: "rocksdb"
+            - name: JOB_MANAGER_RPC_ADDRESS
+              value: "flink-jobmanager"
+            - name: FLINK_PROPERTIES
+              value: |+
+                blob.server.port: 6124
+                jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+                taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+                queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+                jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+          args: ["standalone-job", "--job-classname", "theodolite.uc2.application.HistoryServiceFlinkJob"] # optional arguments: ["--job-id", "<job id>", "--fromSavepoint", "/path/to/savepoint", "--allowNonRestoredState"]
+          #command: ['sleep', '60m']
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 6123
+              name: rpc
+            - containerPort: 6124
+              name: blob-server
+            - containerPort: 8081
+              name: webui
+            - containerPort: 9249
+              name: metrics
+          livenessProbe:
+            tcpSocket:
+              port: 6123
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 60
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /opt/flink/conf
+#            - name: job-artifacts-volume
+#              mountPath: /opt/flink/usrlib
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 9999  # refers to user _flink_ from official flink image, change if necessary
+      initContainers:
+        - name: init-jobmanager
+          image: busybox:1.28
+          command: ['cp', '-a', '/flink-config/.', '/flink-config-rw/']
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume
+              mountPath: /flink-config/
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /flink-config-rw/
+      volumes:
+        - name: flink-config-volume
+          configMap:
+            name: flink-config
+            items:
+              - key: flink-conf.yaml
+                path: flink-conf.yaml
+              - key: log4j-console.properties
+                path: log4j-console.properties
+        - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+          emptyDir: {}
+#        - name: job-artifacts-volume
+#          hostPath:
+#            path: /host/path/to/job/artifacts
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d74aaf7f625c6922e2e1b4f20c19e50a39b68ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager-rest
+spec:
+  type: NodePort
+  ports:
+    - name: rest
+      port: 8081
+      targetPort: 8081
+      nodePort: 30081
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: jobmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2ff5d9898eb1ebf5db9a827472a47514ab1473c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - name: rpc
+      port: 6123
+    - name: blob-server
+      port: 6124
+    - name: webui
+      port: 8081
+    - name: metrics
+      port: 9249
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: jobmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/service-monitor.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/service-monitor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02f78823c627e27ddfe1db5eac3f6a7f7a7f1bf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/service-monitor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+    appScope: titan-ccp
+  name: flink
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+        app: flink
+  endpoints:
+    - port: metrics
+      interval: 10s
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c0a10f65aae92e4ac1fd8fb92bae97794c142232
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: flink-taskmanager
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: flink
+      component: taskmanager
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: flink
+        component: taskmanager
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: taskmanager
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc2-flink:latest
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS
+              value: "100"
+            - name: CHECKPOINTING
+              value: "false"
+            - name: PARALLELISM
+              value: "1"
+            - name: "FLINK_STATE_BACKEND"
+              value: "rocksdb"
+            - name: JOB_MANAGER_RPC_ADDRESS
+              value: "flink-jobmanager"
+            - name: TASK_MANAGER_NUMBER_OF_TASK_SLOTS
+              value: "1" #TODO
+            - name: FLINK_PROPERTIES
+              value: |+
+                blob.server.port: 6124
+                jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+                taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+                queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+                jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+          args: ["taskmanager"]
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 6122
+              name: rpc
+            - containerPort: 6125
+              name: query-state
+            - containerPort: 9249
+              name: metrics
+          livenessProbe:
+            tcpSocket:
+              port: 6122
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 60
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /opt/flink/conf/
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 9999  # refers to user _flink_ from official flink image, change if necessary
+      initContainers:
+        - name: init-taskmanager
+          image: busybox:1.28
+          command: ['cp', '-a', '/flink-config/.', '/flink-config-rw/']
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume
+              mountPath: /flink-config/
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /flink-config-rw/
+      volumes:
+        - name: flink-config-volume
+          configMap:
+            name: flink-config
+            items:
+              - key: flink-conf.yaml
+                path: flink-conf.yaml
+              - key: log4j-console.properties
+                path: log4j-console.properties
+        - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+          emptyDir: {}
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2e27f64af1cfd1a26da142b8a50bb41c8ba5fcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-taskmanager
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - name: metrics
+      port: 9249
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: taskmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-benchmark-operator.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-benchmark-operator.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b65bbdedb055c206c1ebcd7ab6a450318ee8c00f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-benchmark-operator.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+apiVersion: theodolite.com/v1
+kind: benchmark
+spec:
+  metadata:
+    name: uc2-kstreams
+  appResource:
+    - "uc2-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+    - "uc2-kstreams-service.yaml"
+    - "uc2-jmx-configmap.yaml"
+    - "uc2-service-monitor.yaml"
+  loadGenResource:
+    - "uc2-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+    - "uc2-load-generator-service.yaml"
+  resourceTypes:
+    - typeName: "Instances"
+      patchers:
+        - type: "ReplicaPatcher"
+          resource: "uc2-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  loadTypes:
+    - typeName: "NumSensors"
+      patchers:
+        - type: "EnvVarPatcher"
+          resource: "uc2-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+          properties:
+            container: "workload-generator"
+            variableName: "NUM_SENSORS"
+        - type: NumSensorsLoadGeneratorReplicaPatcher
+          resource: "uc2-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+          properties:
+            loadGenMaxRecords: "15000"
+  kafkaConfig:
+    bootstrapServer: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+    topics:
+      - name: "input"
+        numPartitions: 40
+        replicationFactor: 1
+      - name: "output"
+        numPartitions: 40
+        replicationFactor: 1
+      - name: "theodolite-.*"
+        removeOnly: True
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-benchmark-standalone.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-benchmark-standalone.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e38f83f5b05d05febb59c2f775a29b2d545acf0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-benchmark-standalone.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+name: "uc2-kstreams"
+appResource:
+  - "uc2-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  - "uc2-kstreams-service.yaml"
+  - "uc2-jmx-configmap.yaml"
+  - "uc2-service-monitor.yaml"
+loadGenResource:
+  - "uc2-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+  - "uc2-load-generator-service.yaml"
+resourceTypes:
+  - typeName: "Instances"
+    patchers:
+      - type: "ReplicaPatcher"
+        resource: "uc2-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+loadTypes:
+  - typeName: "NumSensors"
+    patchers:
+      - type: "EnvVarPatcher"
+        resource: "uc2-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+        properties:
+          container: "workload-generator"
+          variableName: "NUM_SENSORS"
+      - type: NumSensorsLoadGeneratorReplicaPatcher
+        resource: "uc2-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+        properties:
+          loadGenMaxRecords: "15000"
+kafkaConfig:
+  bootstrapServer: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+  topics:
+    - name: "input"
+      numPartitions: 40
+      replicationFactor: 1
+    - name: "output"
+      numPartitions: 40
+      replicationFactor: 1
+    - name: "theodolite-.*"
+      removeOnly: True
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-jmx-configmap.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-jmx-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78496a86b1242a89b9e844ead3e700fd0b9a9667
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-jmx-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: aggregation-jmx-configmap
+data:
+  jmx-kafka-prometheus.yml: |+
+    jmxUrl: service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:5555/jmxrmi
+    lowercaseOutputName: true
+    lowercaseOutputLabelNames: true
+    ssl: false
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-kstreams-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-kstreams-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e07bb3f9e536655712c06a004c5d1fb60ffa67e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-kstreams-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+    spec:
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
+      containers:
+        - name: uc-application
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc2-kstreams-app:latest
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5555
+              name: jmx
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: JAVA_OPTS
+              value: "-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=5555"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS # Set as default for the applications
+              value: "100"
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+        - name: prometheus-jmx-exporter
+          image: "solsson/kafka-prometheus-jmx-exporter@sha256:6f82e2b0464f50da8104acd7363fb9b995001ddff77d248379f8788e78946143"
+          command:
+            - java
+            - -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
+            - -XX:+UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap
+            - -XX:MaxRAMFraction=1
+            - -XshowSettings:vm
+            - -jar
+            - jmx_prometheus_httpserver.jar
+            - "5556"
+            - /etc/jmx-aggregation/jmx-kafka-prometheus.yml
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5556
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: jmx-config
+              mountPath: /etc/jmx-aggregation
+      volumes:
+        - name: jmx-config
+          configMap:
+            name: aggregation-jmx-configmap
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-kstreams-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-kstreams-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85432d04f225c30469f3232153ef6bd72bd02bdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-kstreams-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:  
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  #type: NodePort
+  selector:    
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  ports:  
+  - name: http
+    port: 80
+    targetPort: 80
+    protocol: TCP
+  - name: metrics
+    port: 5556
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-load-generator-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-load-generator-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dfc0af71543c15b12b5c850919feb0e0a4f52f28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-load-generator-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-load-generator
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+    spec:
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
+      containers:
+        - name: workload-generator
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc2-workload-generator:latest
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5701
+              name: coordination
+          env:
+            - name: KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE
+              valueFrom:
+                fieldRef:
+                  fieldPath: metadata.namespace
+            - name: KUBERNETES_DNS_NAME
+              value: "titan-ccp-load-generator.$(KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE).svc.cluster.local"
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-load-generator-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-load-generator-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8b26b3f6dece427f9c1ad4db94e351b042749b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-load-generator-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  clusterIP: None
+  selector:
+    app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  ports:
+    - name: coordination
+      port: 5701
+      targetPort: 5701
+      protocol: TCP
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-service-monitor.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-service-monitor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e7e758cacb5086305efa26292ddef2afc958096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc2-kstreams/uc2-service-monitor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+    appScope: titan-ccp
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+        app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  endpoints:
+    - port: metrics
+      interval: 10s
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..321541f6ac8715b8546b964d8ad2b7c28552fbcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: flink-config
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+data:
+  flink-conf.yaml: |+
+    #jobmanager.rpc.address: flink-jobmanager
+    #taskmanager.numberOfTaskSlots: 1 #TODO
+    #blob.server.port: 6124
+    #jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+    #taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+    #queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+    #jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+    #taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+    #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+    metrics.reporter.prom.class: org.apache.flink.metrics.prometheus.PrometheusReporter
+    metrics.reporter.prom.interval: 10 SECONDS
+    taskmanager.network.detailed-metrics: true
+  # -> gives metrics about inbound/outbound network queue lengths
+  log4j-console.properties: |+
+    # This affects logging for both user code and Flink
+    rootLogger.level = INFO
+    rootLogger.appenderRef.console.ref = ConsoleAppender
+    rootLogger.appenderRef.rolling.ref = RollingFileAppender
+
+    # Uncomment this if you want to _only_ change Flink's logging
+    #logger.flink.name = org.apache.flink
+    #logger.flink.level = INFO
+
+    # The following lines keep the log level of common libraries/connectors on
+    # log level INFO. The root logger does not override this. You have to manually
+    # change the log levels here.
+    logger.akka.name = akka
+    logger.akka.level = INFO
+    logger.kafka.name= org.apache.kafka
+    logger.kafka.level = INFO
+    logger.hadoop.name = org.apache.hadoop
+    logger.hadoop.level = INFO
+    logger.zookeeper.name = org.apache.zookeeper
+    logger.zookeeper.level = INFO
+
+    # Log all infos to the console
+    appender.console.name = ConsoleAppender
+    appender.console.type = CONSOLE
+    appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
+    appender.console.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p %-60c %x - %m%n
+
+    # Log all infos in the given rolling file
+    appender.rolling.name = RollingFileAppender
+    appender.rolling.type = RollingFile
+    appender.rolling.append = false
+    appender.rolling.fileName = ${sys:log.file}
+    appender.rolling.filePattern = ${sys:log.file}.%i
+    appender.rolling.layout.type = PatternLayout
+    appender.rolling.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p %-60c %x - %m%n
+    appender.rolling.policies.type = Policies
+    appender.rolling.policies.size.type = SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
+    appender.rolling.policies.size.size=100MB
+    appender.rolling.strategy.type = DefaultRolloverStrategy
+    appender.rolling.strategy.max = 10
+
+    # Suppress the irrelevant (wrong) warnings from the Netty channel handler
+    logger.netty.name = org.apache.flink.shaded.akka.org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline
+    logger.netty.level = OFF
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..33bf1f1121a9764785db7a504799314a7ed40cf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: flink
+      component: jobmanager
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: flink
+        component: jobmanager
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: jobmanager
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc3-flink:latest
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS
+              value: "100"
+            - name: CHECKPOINTING
+              value: "false"
+            - name: PARALLELISM
+              value: "1"
+            - name: "FLINK_STATE_BACKEND"
+              value: "rocksdb"
+            - name: JOB_MANAGER_RPC_ADDRESS
+              value: "flink-jobmanager"
+            - name: FLINK_PROPERTIES
+              value: |+
+                blob.server.port: 6124
+                jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+                taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+                queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+                jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+          args: ["standalone-job", "--job-classname", "theodolite.uc3.application.HistoryServiceFlinkJob"] # optional arguments: ["--job-id", "<job id>", "--fromSavepoint", "/path/to/savepoint", "--allowNonRestoredState"]
+          #command: ['sleep', '60m']
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 6123
+              name: rpc
+            - containerPort: 6124
+              name: blob-server
+            - containerPort: 8081
+              name: webui
+            - containerPort: 9249
+              name: metrics
+          livenessProbe:
+            tcpSocket:
+              port: 6123
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 60
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /opt/flink/conf
+#            - name: job-artifacts-volume
+#              mountPath: /opt/flink/usrlib
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 9999  # refers to user _flink_ from official flink image, change if necessary
+      initContainers:
+        - name: init-jobmanager
+          image: busybox:1.28
+          command: ['cp', '-a', '/flink-config/.', '/flink-config-rw/']
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume
+              mountPath: /flink-config/
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /flink-config-rw/
+      volumes:
+        - name: flink-config-volume
+          configMap:
+            name: flink-config
+            items:
+              - key: flink-conf.yaml
+                path: flink-conf.yaml
+              - key: log4j-console.properties
+                path: log4j-console.properties
+        - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+          emptyDir: {}
+#        - name: job-artifacts-volume
+#          hostPath:
+#            path: /host/path/to/job/artifacts
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d74aaf7f625c6922e2e1b4f20c19e50a39b68ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager-rest
+spec:
+  type: NodePort
+  ports:
+    - name: rest
+      port: 8081
+      targetPort: 8081
+      nodePort: 30081
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: jobmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2ff5d9898eb1ebf5db9a827472a47514ab1473c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - name: rpc
+      port: 6123
+    - name: blob-server
+      port: 6124
+    - name: webui
+      port: 8081
+    - name: metrics
+      port: 9249
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: jobmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/service-monitor.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/service-monitor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02f78823c627e27ddfe1db5eac3f6a7f7a7f1bf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/service-monitor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+    appScope: titan-ccp
+  name: flink
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+        app: flink
+  endpoints:
+    - port: metrics
+      interval: 10s
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8f70b7308429f79cfd8f8bda7a7a96e2bc8d8689
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: flink-taskmanager
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: flink
+      component: taskmanager
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: flink
+        component: taskmanager
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: taskmanager
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc3-flink:latest
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS
+              value: "100"
+            - name: CHECKPOINTING
+              value: "false"
+            - name: PARALLELISM
+              value: "1"
+            - name: "FLINK_STATE_BACKEND"
+              value: "rocksdb"
+            - name: JOB_MANAGER_RPC_ADDRESS
+              value: "flink-jobmanager"
+            - name: TASK_MANAGER_NUMBER_OF_TASK_SLOTS
+              value: "1" #TODO
+            - name: FLINK_PROPERTIES
+              value: |+
+                blob.server.port: 6124
+                jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+                taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+                queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+                jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+          args: ["taskmanager"]
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 6122
+              name: rpc
+            - containerPort: 6125
+              name: query-state
+            - containerPort: 9249
+              name: metrics
+          livenessProbe:
+            tcpSocket:
+              port: 6122
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 60
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /opt/flink/conf/
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 9999  # refers to user _flink_ from official flink image, change if necessary
+      initContainers:
+        - name: init-taskmanager
+          image: busybox:1.28
+          command: ['cp', '-a', '/flink-config/.', '/flink-config-rw/']
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume
+              mountPath: /flink-config/
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /flink-config-rw/
+      volumes:
+        - name: flink-config-volume
+          configMap:
+            name: flink-config
+            items:
+              - key: flink-conf.yaml
+                path: flink-conf.yaml
+              - key: log4j-console.properties
+                path: log4j-console.properties
+        - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+          emptyDir: {}
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2e27f64af1cfd1a26da142b8a50bb41c8ba5fcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-taskmanager
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - name: metrics
+      port: 9249
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: taskmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-benchmark-operator.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-benchmark-operator.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bfbd7191c5f4a315db29100bcc05341f88cffec2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-benchmark-operator.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+apiVersion: theodolite.com/v1
+kind: benchmark
+spec:
+  metadata:
+    name: uc3-kstreams
+  appResource:
+    - "uc3-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+    - "uc3-kstreams-service.yaml"
+    - "uc3-jmx-configmap.yaml"
+    - "uc3-service-monitor.yaml"
+  loadGenResource:
+    - "uc3-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+    - "uc3-load-generator-service.yaml"
+  resourceTypes:
+    - typeName: "Instances"
+      patchers:
+        - type: "ReplicaPatcher"
+          resource: "uc3-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  loadTypes:
+    - typeName: "NumSensors"
+      patchers:
+        - type: "EnvVarPatcher"
+          resource: "uc3-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+          properties:
+            container: "workload-generator"
+            variableName: "NUM_SENSORS"
+        - type: NumSensorsLoadGeneratorReplicaPatcher
+          resource: "uc3-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+          properties:
+            loadGenMaxRecords: "15000"
+  kafkaConfig:
+    bootstrapServer: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+    topics:
+      - name: "input"
+        numPartitions: 40
+        replicationFactor: 1
+      - name: "output"
+        numPartitions: 40
+        replicationFactor: 1
+      - name: "theodolite-.*"
+        removeOnly: True
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-benchmark-standalone.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-benchmark-standalone.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e00c1672c4a5a02128c2618b525573a4cddd6c72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-benchmark-standalone.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+name: "uc3-kstreams"
+appResource:
+  - "uc3-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  - "uc3-kstreams-service.yaml"
+  - "uc3-jmx-configmap.yaml"
+  - "uc3-service-monitor.yaml"
+loadGenResource:
+  - "uc3-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+  - "uc3-load-generator-service.yaml"
+resourceTypes:
+  - typeName: "Instances"
+    patchers:
+      - type: "ReplicaPatcher"
+        resource: "uc3-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+loadTypes:
+  - typeName: "NumSensors"
+    patchers:
+      - type: "EnvVarPatcher"
+        resource: "uc3-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+        properties:
+          container: "workload-generator"
+          variableName: "NUM_SENSORS"
+      - type: NumSensorsLoadGeneratorReplicaPatcher
+        resource: "uc3-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+        properties:
+          loadGenMaxRecords: "15000"
+kafkaConfig:
+  bootstrapServer: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+  topics:
+    - name: "input"
+      numPartitions: 40
+      replicationFactor: 1
+    - name: "output"
+      numPartitions: 40
+      replicationFactor: 1
+    - name: "theodolite-.*"
+      removeOnly: True
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-jmx-configmap.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-jmx-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78496a86b1242a89b9e844ead3e700fd0b9a9667
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-jmx-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: aggregation-jmx-configmap
+data:
+  jmx-kafka-prometheus.yml: |+
+    jmxUrl: service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:5555/jmxrmi
+    lowercaseOutputName: true
+    lowercaseOutputLabelNames: true
+    ssl: false
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-kstreams-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-kstreams-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e3f63fae9e245e6116e0fe451480d9bc74b36433
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-kstreams-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+    spec:
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
+      containers:
+        - name: uc-application
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc3-kstreams-app:latest
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5555
+              name: jmx
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: JAVA_OPTS
+              value: "-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=5555"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS # Set as default for the applications
+              value: "100"
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+        - name: prometheus-jmx-exporter
+          image: "solsson/kafka-prometheus-jmx-exporter@sha256:6f82e2b0464f50da8104acd7363fb9b995001ddff77d248379f8788e78946143"
+          command:
+            - java
+            - -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
+            - -XX:+UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap
+            - -XX:MaxRAMFraction=1
+            - -XshowSettings:vm
+            - -jar
+            - jmx_prometheus_httpserver.jar
+            - "5556"
+            - /etc/jmx-aggregation/jmx-kafka-prometheus.yml
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5556
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: jmx-config
+              mountPath: /etc/jmx-aggregation
+      volumes:
+        - name: jmx-config
+          configMap:
+            name: aggregation-jmx-configmap
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-kstreams-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-kstreams-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85432d04f225c30469f3232153ef6bd72bd02bdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-kstreams-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:  
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  #type: NodePort
+  selector:    
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  ports:  
+  - name: http
+    port: 80
+    targetPort: 80
+    protocol: TCP
+  - name: metrics
+    port: 5556
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-load-generator-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-load-generator-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c1cad0b70fd82a5bbb43792ee79f9cf5cc71d95f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-load-generator-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-load-generator
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+    spec:
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
+      containers:
+        - name: workload-generator
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc3-workload-generator:latest
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5701
+              name: coordination
+          env:
+            - name: KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE
+              valueFrom:
+                fieldRef:
+                  fieldPath: metadata.namespace
+            - name: KUBERNETES_DNS_NAME
+              value: "titan-ccp-load-generator.$(KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE).svc.cluster.local"
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-load-generator-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-load-generator-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8b26b3f6dece427f9c1ad4db94e351b042749b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-load-generator-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  clusterIP: None
+  selector:
+    app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  ports:
+    - name: coordination
+      port: 5701
+      targetPort: 5701
+      protocol: TCP
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-service-monitor.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-service-monitor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e7e758cacb5086305efa26292ddef2afc958096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc3-kstreams/uc3-service-monitor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+    appScope: titan-ccp
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+        app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  endpoints:
+    - port: metrics
+      interval: 10s
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..321541f6ac8715b8546b964d8ad2b7c28552fbcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/flink-configuration-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: flink-config
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+data:
+  flink-conf.yaml: |+
+    #jobmanager.rpc.address: flink-jobmanager
+    #taskmanager.numberOfTaskSlots: 1 #TODO
+    #blob.server.port: 6124
+    #jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+    #taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+    #queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+    #jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+    #taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+    #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+    metrics.reporter.prom.class: org.apache.flink.metrics.prometheus.PrometheusReporter
+    metrics.reporter.prom.interval: 10 SECONDS
+    taskmanager.network.detailed-metrics: true
+  # -> gives metrics about inbound/outbound network queue lengths
+  log4j-console.properties: |+
+    # This affects logging for both user code and Flink
+    rootLogger.level = INFO
+    rootLogger.appenderRef.console.ref = ConsoleAppender
+    rootLogger.appenderRef.rolling.ref = RollingFileAppender
+
+    # Uncomment this if you want to _only_ change Flink's logging
+    #logger.flink.name = org.apache.flink
+    #logger.flink.level = INFO
+
+    # The following lines keep the log level of common libraries/connectors on
+    # log level INFO. The root logger does not override this. You have to manually
+    # change the log levels here.
+    logger.akka.name = akka
+    logger.akka.level = INFO
+    logger.kafka.name= org.apache.kafka
+    logger.kafka.level = INFO
+    logger.hadoop.name = org.apache.hadoop
+    logger.hadoop.level = INFO
+    logger.zookeeper.name = org.apache.zookeeper
+    logger.zookeeper.level = INFO
+
+    # Log all infos to the console
+    appender.console.name = ConsoleAppender
+    appender.console.type = CONSOLE
+    appender.console.layout.type = PatternLayout
+    appender.console.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p %-60c %x - %m%n
+
+    # Log all infos in the given rolling file
+    appender.rolling.name = RollingFileAppender
+    appender.rolling.type = RollingFile
+    appender.rolling.append = false
+    appender.rolling.fileName = ${sys:log.file}
+    appender.rolling.filePattern = ${sys:log.file}.%i
+    appender.rolling.layout.type = PatternLayout
+    appender.rolling.layout.pattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} %-5p %-60c %x - %m%n
+    appender.rolling.policies.type = Policies
+    appender.rolling.policies.size.type = SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy
+    appender.rolling.policies.size.size=100MB
+    appender.rolling.strategy.type = DefaultRolloverStrategy
+    appender.rolling.strategy.max = 10
+
+    # Suppress the irrelevant (wrong) warnings from the Netty channel handler
+    logger.netty.name = org.apache.flink.shaded.akka.org.jboss.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline
+    logger.netty.level = OFF
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b6533a2c4355e227a16aeface2080253bce19958
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/jobmanager-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: flink
+      component: jobmanager
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: flink
+        component: jobmanager
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: jobmanager
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc4-flink:latest
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS
+              value: "100"
+            - name: CHECKPOINTING
+              value: "false"
+            - name: PARALLELISM
+              value: "1"
+            - name: "FLINK_STATE_BACKEND"
+              value: "rocksdb"
+            - name: JOB_MANAGER_RPC_ADDRESS
+              value: "flink-jobmanager"
+            - name: FLINK_PROPERTIES
+              value: |+
+                blob.server.port: 6124
+                jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+                taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+                queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+                jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+          args: ["standalone-job", "--job-classname", "theodolite.uc4.application.AggregationServiceFlinkJob"] # optional arguments: ["--job-id", "<job id>", "--fromSavepoint", "/path/to/savepoint", "--allowNonRestoredState"]
+          #command: ['sleep', '60m']
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 6123
+              name: rpc
+            - containerPort: 6124
+              name: blob-server
+            - containerPort: 8081
+              name: webui
+            - containerPort: 9249
+              name: metrics
+          livenessProbe:
+            tcpSocket:
+              port: 6123
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 60
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /opt/flink/conf
+#            - name: job-artifacts-volume
+#              mountPath: /opt/flink/usrlib
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 9999  # refers to user _flink_ from official flink image, change if necessary
+      initContainers:
+        - name: init-jobmanager
+          image: busybox:1.28
+          command: ['cp', '-a', '/flink-config/.', '/flink-config-rw/']
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume
+              mountPath: /flink-config/
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /flink-config-rw/
+      volumes:
+        - name: flink-config-volume
+          configMap:
+            name: flink-config
+            items:
+              - key: flink-conf.yaml
+                path: flink-conf.yaml
+              - key: log4j-console.properties
+                path: log4j-console.properties
+        - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+          emptyDir: {}
+#        - name: job-artifacts-volume
+#          hostPath:
+#            path: /host/path/to/job/artifacts
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3d74aaf7f625c6922e2e1b4f20c19e50a39b68ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/jobmanager-rest-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager-rest
+spec:
+  type: NodePort
+  ports:
+    - name: rest
+      port: 8081
+      targetPort: 8081
+      nodePort: 30081
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: jobmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e2ff5d9898eb1ebf5db9a827472a47514ab1473c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/jobmanager-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-jobmanager
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - name: rpc
+      port: 6123
+    - name: blob-server
+      port: 6124
+    - name: webui
+      port: 8081
+    - name: metrics
+      port: 9249
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: jobmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/service-monitor.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/service-monitor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..02f78823c627e27ddfe1db5eac3f6a7f7a7f1bf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/service-monitor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+    appScope: titan-ccp
+  name: flink
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+        app: flink
+  endpoints:
+    - port: metrics
+      interval: 10s
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7363b013b21ad29b481e449113ccf31538505634
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/taskmanager-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: flink-taskmanager
+spec:
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: flink
+      component: taskmanager
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: flink
+        component: taskmanager
+    spec:
+      containers:
+        - name: taskmanager
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc4-flink:latest
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS
+              value: "100"
+            - name: CHECKPOINTING
+              value: "false"
+            - name: PARALLELISM
+              value: "1"
+            - name: "FLINK_STATE_BACKEND"
+              value: "rocksdb"
+            - name: JOB_MANAGER_RPC_ADDRESS
+              value: "flink-jobmanager"
+            - name: TASK_MANAGER_NUMBER_OF_TASK_SLOTS
+              value: "1" #TODO
+            - name: FLINK_PROPERTIES
+              value: |+
+                blob.server.port: 6124
+                jobmanager.rpc.port: 6123
+                taskmanager.rpc.port: 6122
+                queryable-state.proxy.ports: 6125
+                jobmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                taskmanager.memory.process.size: 4Gb
+                #parallelism.default: 1 #TODO
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+          args: ["taskmanager"]
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 6122
+              name: rpc
+            - containerPort: 6125
+              name: query-state
+            - containerPort: 9249
+              name: metrics
+          livenessProbe:
+            tcpSocket:
+              port: 6122
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 60
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /opt/flink/conf/
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 9999  # refers to user _flink_ from official flink image, change if necessary
+      initContainers:
+        - name: init-taskmanager
+          image: busybox:1.28
+          command: ['cp', '-a', '/flink-config/.', '/flink-config-rw/']
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: flink-config-volume
+              mountPath: /flink-config/
+            - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+              mountPath: /flink-config-rw/
+      volumes:
+        - name: flink-config-volume
+          configMap:
+            name: flink-config
+            items:
+              - key: flink-conf.yaml
+                path: flink-conf.yaml
+              - key: log4j-console.properties
+                path: log4j-console.properties
+        - name: flink-config-volume-rw
+          emptyDir: {}
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a2e27f64af1cfd1a26da142b8a50bb41c8ba5fcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-flink/taskmanager-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: flink-taskmanager
+  labels:
+    app: flink
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  ports:
+    - name: metrics
+      port: 9249
+  selector:
+    app: flink
+    component: taskmanager
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-benchmark-operator.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-benchmark-operator.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0ed48c9afd0d8d02493f7afc2df3e440d0ffabdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-benchmark-operator.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+apiVersion: theodolite.com/v1
+kind: benchmark
+spec:
+  metadata:
+    name: uc4-kstreams
+  appResource:
+    - "uc4-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+    - "uc4-kstreams-service.yaml"
+    - "uc4-jmx-configmap.yaml"
+    - "uc4-service-monitor.yaml"
+  loadGenResource:
+    - "uc4-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+    - "uc4-load-generator-service.yaml"
+  resourceTypes:
+    - typeName: "Instances"
+      patchers:
+        - type: "ReplicaPatcher"
+          resource: "uc4-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  loadTypes:
+    - typeName: "NumNestedGroups"
+      patchers:
+        - type: "EnvVarPatcher"
+          resource: "uc4-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+          properties:
+            container: "workload-generator"
+            variableName: "NUM_SENSORS"
+        - type: NumNestedGroupsLoadGeneratorReplicaPatcher
+          resource: "uc4-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+          properties:
+            loadGenMaxRecords: "15000"
+            numSensors: "4.0"
+  kafkaConfig:
+    bootstrapServer: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+    topics:
+      - name: "input"
+        numPartitions: 40
+        replicationFactor: 1
+      - name: "output"
+        numPartitions: 40
+        replicationFactor: 1
+      - name: "configuration"
+        numPartitions: 40
+        replicationFactor: 1
+      - name: "aggregation-feedback"
+        numPartitions: 40
+        replicationFactor: 1
+      - name: "theodolite-.*"
+        removeOnly: True
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-benchmark-standalone.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-benchmark-standalone.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..96e72c9b6d726267044464cce6deb32f60442e96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-benchmark-standalone.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+name: "uc4-kstreams"
+appResource:
+  - "uc4-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  - "uc4-kstreams-service.yaml"
+  - "uc4-jmx-configmap.yaml"
+  - "uc4-service-monitor.yaml"
+loadGenResource:
+  - "uc4-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+  - "uc4-load-generator-service.yaml"
+resourceTypes:
+  - typeName: "Instances"
+    patchers:
+      - type: "ReplicaPatcher"
+        resource: "uc4-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+loadTypes:
+  - typeName: "NumNestedGroups"
+    patchers:
+      - type: "EnvVarPatcher"
+        resource: "uc4-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+        properties:
+          container: "workload-generator"
+          variableName: "NUM_NESTED_GROUPS"
+      - type: "NumNestedGroupsLoadGeneratorReplicaPatcher"
+        resource: "uc4-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+        properties:
+          loadGenMaxRecords: "15000"
+          numSensors: "4.0"
+kafkaConfig:
+  bootstrapServer: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+  topics:
+    - name: "input"
+      numPartitions: 40
+      replicationFactor: 1
+    - name: "output"
+      numPartitions: 40
+      replicationFactor: 1
+    - name: "configuration"
+      numPartitions: 40
+      replicationFactor: 1
+    - name: "aggregation-feedback"
+      numPartitions: 40
+      replicationFactor: 1
+    - name: "theodolite-.*"
+      removeOnly: True
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-jmx-configmap.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-jmx-configmap.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..78496a86b1242a89b9e844ead3e700fd0b9a9667
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-jmx-configmap.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: aggregation-jmx-configmap
+data:
+  jmx-kafka-prometheus.yml: |+
+    jmxUrl: service:jmx:rmi:///jndi/rmi://localhost:5555/jmxrmi
+    lowercaseOutputName: true
+    lowercaseOutputLabelNames: true
+    ssl: false
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-kstreams-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-kstreams-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..20e0872d262df46b5c213d9d529983f5f4155735
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-kstreams-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+    spec:
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
+      containers:
+        - name: uc-application
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc4-kstreams-app:latest
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5555
+              name: jmx
+          env:
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: JAVA_OPTS
+              value: "-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=5555"
+            - name: COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS # Set as default for the applications
+              value: "100"
+          resources:
+            limits:
+              memory: 4Gi
+              cpu: 1000m
+        - name: prometheus-jmx-exporter
+          image: "solsson/kafka-prometheus-jmx-exporter@sha256:6f82e2b0464f50da8104acd7363fb9b995001ddff77d248379f8788e78946143"
+          command:
+            - java
+            - -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
+            - -XX:+UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap
+            - -XX:MaxRAMFraction=1
+            - -XshowSettings:vm
+            - -jar
+            - jmx_prometheus_httpserver.jar
+            - "5556"
+            - /etc/jmx-aggregation/jmx-kafka-prometheus.yml
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5556
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: jmx-config
+              mountPath: /etc/jmx-aggregation
+      volumes:
+        - name: jmx-config
+          configMap:
+            name: aggregation-jmx-configmap
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-kstreams-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-kstreams-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..85432d04f225c30469f3232153ef6bd72bd02bdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-kstreams-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:  
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  #type: NodePort
+  selector:    
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  ports:  
+  - name: http
+    port: 80
+    targetPort: 80
+    protocol: TCP
+  - name: metrics
+    port: 5556
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-load-generator-deployment.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-load-generator-deployment.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7a69d13daae57b06c77f316da9aa953b21ac096b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-load-generator-deployment.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-load-generator
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+    spec:
+      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
+      containers:
+        - name: workload-generator
+          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite-uc4-workload-generator:latest
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 5701
+              name: coordination
+          env:
+            - name: KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE
+              valueFrom:
+                fieldRef:
+                  fieldPath: metadata.namespace
+            - name: KUBERNETES_DNS_NAME
+              value: "titan-ccp-load-generator.$(KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE).svc.cluster.local"
+            - name: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS
+              value: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
+            - name: SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL
+              value: "http://theodolite-cp-schema-registry:8081"
+            - name: NUM_NESTED_GROUPS
+              value: "5"
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-load-generator-service.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-load-generator-service.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f8b26b3f6dece427f9c1ad4db94e351b042749b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-load-generator-service.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  clusterIP: None
+  selector:
+    app: titan-ccp-load-generator
+  ports:
+    - name: coordination
+      port: 5701
+      targetPort: 5701
+      protocol: TCP
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-service-monitor.yaml b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-service-monitor.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4e7e758cacb5086305efa26292ddef2afc958096
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/definitions/uc4-kstreams/uc4-service-monitor.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  labels:
+    app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+    appScope: titan-ccp
+  name: titan-ccp-aggregation
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+        app: titan-ccp-aggregation
+  endpoints:
+    - port: metrics
+      interval: 10s
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/uc1-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc1/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java b/theodolite-benchmarks/uc1-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc1/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java
index 8d9832e40253fe9e3178bfc25047ed2b376abe76..0cb132e526486e71409736b843dd25bdfa52da4a 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/uc1-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc1/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/uc1-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc1/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public final class HistoryServiceFlinkJob {
     // Parallelism
     final Integer parallelism = this.config.getInteger(ConfigurationKeys.PARALLELISM, null);
     if (parallelism != null) {
-      LOGGER.error("Set parallelism: {}.", parallelism);
+      LOGGER.info("Set parallelism: {}.", parallelism);
       this.env.setParallelism(parallelism);
     }
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ public final class HistoryServiceFlinkJob {
     final DataStream<ActivePowerRecord> stream = this.env.addSource(kafkaConsumer);
 
     stream
-        .rebalance()
+        // .rebalance()
         .map(new GsonMapper())
         .flatMap((record, c) -> LOGGER.info("Record: {}", record))
         .returns(Types.GENERIC(Object.class)); // Will never be used
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/uc2-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc2/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java b/theodolite-benchmarks/uc2-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc2/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java
index 1068267086892c4538001b6afc670b3b0cd043ef..d156d895d86bb01a31f96e08764df8b8df743c4d 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/uc2-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc2/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/uc2-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc2/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ public final class HistoryServiceFlinkJob {
     // Parallelism
     final Integer parallelism = this.config.getInteger(ConfigurationKeys.PARALLELISM, null);
     if (parallelism != null) {
-      LOGGER.error("Set parallelism: {}.", parallelism);
+      LOGGER.info("Set parallelism: {}.", parallelism);
       this.env.setParallelism(parallelism);
     }
 
@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ public final class HistoryServiceFlinkJob {
     final String schemaRegistryUrl = this.config.getString(ConfigurationKeys.SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL);
     final String inputTopic = this.config.getString(ConfigurationKeys.KAFKA_INPUT_TOPIC);
     final String outputTopic = this.config.getString(ConfigurationKeys.KAFKA_OUTPUT_TOPIC);
-    final int windowDuration = this.config.getInt(ConfigurationKeys.KAFKA_WINDOW_DURATION_MINUTES);
+    final int windowDurationMinutes =
+        this.config.getInt(ConfigurationKeys.KAFKA_WINDOW_DURATION_MINUTES);
+    final Time windowDuration = Time.minutes(windowDurationMinutes);
     final boolean checkpointing = this.config.getBoolean(ConfigurationKeys.CHECKPOINTING, true);
 
     final KafkaConnectorFactory kafkaConnector = new KafkaConnectorFactory(
@@ -100,9 +102,9 @@ public final class HistoryServiceFlinkJob {
 
     this.env
         .addSource(kafkaSource).name("[Kafka Consumer] Topic: " + inputTopic)
-        .rebalance()
+        // .rebalance()
         .keyBy(ActivePowerRecord::getIdentifier)
-        .window(TumblingEventTimeWindows.of(Time.minutes(windowDuration)))
+        .window(TumblingEventTimeWindows.of(windowDuration))
         .aggregate(new StatsAggregateFunction(), new StatsProcessWindowFunction())
         .map(t -> {
           final String key = t.f0;
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/uc3-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc3/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java b/theodolite-benchmarks/uc3-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc3/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java
index d69ee47d8c831f2e5e74abdd8c33393c8ee6e07e..091b25674a2a31671ca68bd2076c694da9533d77 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/uc3-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc3/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/uc3-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc3/application/HistoryServiceFlinkJob.java
@@ -117,9 +117,8 @@ public final class HistoryServiceFlinkJob {
     // Streaming topology
     final StatsKeyFactory<HourOfDayKey> keyFactory = new HourOfDayKeyFactory();
     this.env
-        .addSource(kafkaSource)
-        .name("[Kafka Consumer] Topic: " + inputTopic)
-        .rebalance()
+        .addSource(kafkaSource).name("[Kafka Consumer] Topic: " + inputTopic)
+        // .rebalance()
         .keyBy((KeySelector<ActivePowerRecord, HourOfDayKey>) record -> {
           final Instant instant = Instant.ofEpochMilli(record.getTimestamp());
           final LocalDateTime dateTime = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(instant, timeZone);
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/uc4-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc4/application/AggregationServiceFlinkJob.java b/theodolite-benchmarks/uc4-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc4/application/AggregationServiceFlinkJob.java
index 45c7ff1ad1faeec6357e4ac3871dec7a51306698..3e2878a893057024de00333492462f5029eb6d77 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/uc4-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc4/application/AggregationServiceFlinkJob.java
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/uc4-flink/src/main/java/theodolite/uc4/application/AggregationServiceFlinkJob.java
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public final class AggregationServiceFlinkJob {
     // Parallelism
     final Integer parallelism = this.config.getInteger(ConfigurationKeys.PARALLELISM, null);
     if (parallelism != null) {
-      LOGGER.error("Set parallelism: {}.", parallelism);
+      LOGGER.info("Set parallelism: {}.", parallelism);
       this.env.setParallelism(parallelism);
     }
 
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ public final class AggregationServiceFlinkJob {
     // Build input stream
     final DataStream<ActivePowerRecord> inputStream = this.env.addSource(kafkaInputSource)
         .name("[Kafka Consumer] Topic: " + inputTopic)// NOCS
-        .rebalance()
+        // .rebalance()
         .map(r -> r)
         .name("[Map] Rebalance Forward");
 
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ public final class AggregationServiceFlinkJob {
     final DataStream<ActivePowerRecord> aggregationsInputStream =
         this.env.addSource(kafkaOutputSource)
             .name("[Kafka Consumer] Topic: " + outputTopic) // NOCS
-            .rebalance()
+            // .rebalance()
             .map(r -> new ActivePowerRecord(r.getIdentifier(), r.getTimestamp(), r.getSumInW()))
             .name("[Map] AggregatedActivePowerRecord -> ActivePowerRecord");
 
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/config/thedolite-operator.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/config/thedolite-operator.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e0e60248c2474cc8493179c003b806030f79f8c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/theodolite-quarkus/config/thedolite-operator.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: apps/v1
-kind: Deployment
-metadata:
-  name: theodolite
-spec:
-  selector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app: theodolite
-  replicas: 1
-  template:
-    metadata:
-      labels:
-        app: theodolite
-    spec:
-      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
-      serviceAccountName: theodolite
-      containers:
-        - name: thedolite
-          image: ghcr.io/cau-se/theodolite:theodolite-kotlin-latest
-          env:
-            - name: KUBECONFIG
-              value: "~/.kube/config"
-            - name: NAMESPACE
-              value: "default"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/operator/benchmarkCRD.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/crd/crd-benchmark.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/operator/benchmarkCRD.yaml
rename to theodolite-quarkus/crd/crd-benchmark.yaml
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/operator/executionCRD.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/crd/crd-execution.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/operator/executionCRD.yaml
rename to theodolite-quarkus/crd/crd-execution.yaml
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/operator/example-benchmark-k8s-resource.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/examples/operator/example-benchmark.yaml
similarity index 91%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/operator/example-benchmark-k8s-resource.yaml
rename to theodolite-quarkus/examples/operator/example-benchmark.yaml
index 7a728d97c52a84d81bcc44fd9f20c56e6b574527..91d9f8f1f7dfed31d9edcb59947af4e832ca2843 100644
--- a/theodolite-quarkus/src/main/resources/operator/example-benchmark-k8s-resource.yaml
+++ b/theodolite-quarkus/examples/operator/example-benchmark.yaml
@@ -3,15 +3,14 @@ kind: benchmark
 metadata:
   name: uc1-kstreams
 spec:
-  name: test
   appResource:
     - "uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
     - "aggregation-service.yaml"
     - "jmx-configmap.yaml"
+    - "uc1-service-monitor.yaml"
   loadGenResource:
     - "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
     - "uc1-load-generator-service.yaml"
-    - "uc1-load-generator-service.yaml"
   resourceTypes:
     - typeName: "Instances"
       patchers:
@@ -23,14 +22,14 @@ spec:
         - type: "EnvVarPatcher"
           resource: "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
           properties:
-            container: "workload-generator"
             variableName: "NUM_SENSORS"
+            container: "workload-generator"
         - type: "NumSensorsLoadGeneratorReplicaPatcher"
           resource: "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
           properties:
             loadGenMaxRecords: "15000"
   kafkaConfig:
-    bootstrapServer: "localhost:31290"
+    bootstrapServer: "theodolite-cp-kafka:9092"
     topics:
       - name: "input"
         numPartitions: 40
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/examples/operator/example-execution.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/examples/operator/example-execution.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5386fd7c8665e01302067da81c5dd4caf87fc602
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-quarkus/examples/operator/example-execution.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+apiVersion: theodolite.com/v1
+kind: execution
+metadata:
+  name: theodolite-example-execution
+spec:
+  benchmark: "uc1-kstreams"
+  load:
+    loadType: "NumSensors"
+    loadValues: [25000, 50000, 75000, 100000, 125000, 150000]
+  resources:
+    resourceType: "Instances"
+    resourceValues: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
+  slos:
+    - sloType: "lag trend"
+      threshold: 2000
+      prometheusUrl: "http://prometheus-operated:9090"
+      externalSloUrl: "http://localhost:80/evaluate-slope"
+      offset: 0
+      warmup: 60 # in seconds
+  execution:
+    strategy: "LinearSearch"
+    duration: 300 # in seconds
+    repetitions: 1
+    loadGenerationDelay: 30 # in seconds
+    restrictions:
+      - "LowerBound"
+  configOverrides:
+  # - patcher:
+  #     type: "NodeSelectorPatcher"
+  #     resource: "uc1-load-generator-deployment.yaml"
+  #     properties:
+  #       variableName: "env"
+  #     value: "prod"
+  # - patcher:
+  #     type: "NodeSelectorPatcher"
+  #     resource: "uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  #     properties:
+  #       variableName: "env"
+  #   value: "prod"
+  # - patcher:
+  #     type: "ResourceLimitPatcher"
+  #     resource: "uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  #     properties:
+  #       container: "uc-application"
+  #       limitedResource: "cpu"
+  #   value: "1000m"
+  # - patcher:
+  #     type: "ResourceLimitPatcher"
+  #     resource: "uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  #     properties:
+  #       container: "uc-application"
+  #       limitedResource: "memory"
+  #   value: "2Gi"
+  #  - patcher:
+  #      type: "SchedulerNamePatcher"
+  #      resource: "uc1-kstreams-deployment.yaml"
+  #    value: "random-scheduler"
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/config/example-benchmark-yaml-resource.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/examples/standalone/example-benchmark.yaml
similarity index 97%
rename from theodolite-quarkus/config/example-benchmark-yaml-resource.yaml
rename to theodolite-quarkus/examples/standalone/example-benchmark.yaml
index 623df71121b11b670584a83e153b4dd2962525e7..83edce93834ca9b8eef5606c1e5884ce40bdd7d8 100644
--- a/theodolite-quarkus/config/example-benchmark-yaml-resource.yaml
+++ b/theodolite-quarkus/examples/standalone/example-benchmark.yaml
@@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ kafkaConfig:
       numPartitions: 40
       replicationFactor: 1
     - name: "theodolite-.*"
-      removeOnly: True
\ No newline at end of file
+      removeOnly: True
diff --git a/theodolite-quarkus/examples/standalone/example-execution.yaml b/theodolite-quarkus/examples/standalone/example-execution.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..24b2b7f32e803553a4a13b76869ccf4cf3f6e5a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/theodolite-quarkus/examples/standalone/example-execution.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+name: example-execution
+benchmark: "uc1-kstreams"
+load:
+  loadType: "NumSensors"
+  loadValues: [25000, 50000, 75000, 100000, 125000, 150000]
+resources:
+  resourceType: "Instances"
+  resourceValues: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
+slos:
+  - sloType: "lag trend"
+    threshold: 2000
+    prometheusUrl: "http://prometheus-operated:9090"
+    externalSloUrl: "http://localhost:80/evaluate-slope"
+    offset: 0
+    warmup: 60 # in seconds
+execution:
+  strategy: "LinearSearch"
+  duration: 300 # in seconds
+  repetitions: 1
+  loadGenerationDelay: 30 # in seconds, optional field, default is 0 seconds
+  restrictions:
+    - "LowerBound"
+configOverrides: []
\ No newline at end of file