Declarative Kafka Configuration As Code

[Brian Attwell <br...@cloudkitchens.com>]

I'm setting up our Kafka cluster at a new company, and I think it would be
beneficial if topic/partitioning/schemas are configured in code as opposed
to by running ad-hoc kafka commands or using something like Kafka Manager.

Has anyone had a good experience writing a declarative kafka config schema
or using open source tools for this? Or does know a reason why this seems
like a terrible idea?

--Brian

Re: Declarative Kafka Configuration As Code

[Ryanne Dolan <ry...@gmail.com>]

Brian, you can use AdminClient to configure Kafka topics programmatically.
You might consider using a jvm language like Scala that can embed a DSL for
configuration.

Ryanne

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019, 5:38 PM Brian Attwell <brian.attwell@cloudkitchens.com
wrote:

> I'm setting up our Kafka cluster at a new company, and I think it would be
> beneficial if topic/partitioning/schemas are configured in code as opposed
> to by running ad-hoc kafka commands or using something like Kafka Manager.
>
> Has anyone had a good experience writing a declarative kafka config schema
> or using open source tools for this? Or does know a reason why this seems
> like a terrible idea?
>
> --Brian
>