cppforlife/kafka-release

Kafka release for BOSH

Kafka BOSH release

$ # ... deploy zookeeper
$ bosh -d kafka deploy manifests/example.yml -o manifests/dev.yml
$ bosh -d kafka run-errand smoke-tests

• https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart

TODO

• smoke tests
  • https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/Apache-Kafka-Client-Benchmarks/
  • https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go
• perf tests
  • https://db-blog.web.cern.ch/blog/prasanth-kothuri/2016-10-benchmarking-apache-kafka-openstack-vms
• fs tweaking
  • https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#ext4
• secure connection
  • https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#security_ssl
  • https://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-kafka-security-authorization-authentication-encryption/
• create/delete-topic vs topic