AMQ Streams (Kafka) Deployment

The Fight and Statistics microservices will be interacting with Kafka broker as the architecture diagram below. So, we have to setup the broker for the microservices before we're going to deploy them.

Architecture

Setup Kafka cluster

1. Click on the book icon, to add application from Developer Catalog then type kafka in the search box. Select Kafka and click Create button.

   

   Add Kafka broker
2. Enter fights to the Name field then click Create button.

   

   Add Kafka broker
3. Wait for a monent you'll see Kafka cluster get deployed. Who says setup Kafka cluster is hard? 😏

   

   Add Kafka broker

What have you learnt?

How to set up Kafka cluster using AMQ Streams (based on Strimzi open source project).