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Kafka as Kubernetes PetSet

Example of three Kafka brokers depending on three Zookeeper instances.

To get consistent service DNS names kafka-N.broker.kafka(.svc.cluster.local), run everything in a namespace:

kubectl create -f 00namespace.yml

Set up volume claims

This step can be skipped in clusters that support automatic volume provisioning, such as GKE.

You need this step in Minikube.

./zookeeper/bootstrap/pv.sh
kubectl create -f ./zookeeper/bootstrap/pvc.yml
./bootstrap/pv.sh
kubectl create -f ./bootstrap/pvc.yml
# check that claims are bound
kubectl get pvc

The volume size in the example is very small. The numbers don't really matter as long as they match. Minimal size on GKE is 1 GB.

Set up Zookeeper

This module contains a copy of pets/zookeeper/ from https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib.

See the ./zookeeper folder and follow the README there.

An additional service has been added here, create using:

kubectl create -f ./zookeeper/service.yml

Start Kafka

kubectl create -f ./

You might want to verify in logs that Kafka found its own DNS name(s) correctly. Look for records like:

kubectl logs kafka-0 | grep "Registered broker"
# INFO Registered broker 0 at path /brokers/ids/0 with addresses: PLAINTEXT -> EndPoint(kafka-0.broker.kafka.svc.cluster.local,9092,PLAINTEXT)

Testing manually

There's a Kafka pod that doesn't start the server, so you can invoke the various shell scripts.

kubectl create -f test/99testclient.yml

See ./test/test.sh for some sample commands.

Automated test, while going chaosmonkey on the cluster

This is WIP, but topic creation has been automated. Note that as a Job, it will restart if the command fails, including if the topic exists :(

kubectl create -f test/11topic-create-test1.yml

Pods that keep consuming messages (but they won't exit on cluster failures)

kubectl create -f test/21consumer-test1.yml

Teardown & cleanup

Testing and retesting... delete the namespace. PVs are outside namespaces so delete them too.

kubectl delete namespace kafka
rm -R ./data/ && kubectl delete pv datadir-zoo-0 datadir-zoo-1 datadir-zoo-2
rm -R ./data/ && kubectl delete pv datadir-kafka-0 datadir-kafka-1 datadir-kafka-2

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