DC/OS Apache Kafka is an automated service that makes it easy to deploy and manage Apache Kafka on Mesosphere DC/OS, eliminating nearly all of the complexity traditionally associated with managing a Kafka cluster. Apache Kafka is a distributed high-throughput publish-subscribe messaging system with strong ordering guarantees. Kafka clusters are highly available, fault tolerant, and very durable. For more information on Apache Kafka, see the Apache Kafka documentation. DC/OS Kafka gives you direct access to the Kafka API so that existing producers and consumers can interoperate. You can configure and install DC/OS Kafka in moments. Multiple Kafka clusters can be installed on DC/OS and managed independently, so you can offer Kafka as a managed service to your organization.
Benefits
DC/OS Kafka offers the following benefits of a semi-managed service:
- Easy installation
- Multiple Kafka clusters
- Elastic scaling of brokers
- Replication and graceful shutdown for high availability
- Kafka cluster and broker monitoring
Features
DC/OS Kafka provides the following features:
- Single-command installation for rapid provisioning
- Multiple clusters for multiple tenancy with DC/OS
- High availability runtime configuration and software updates
- Storage volumes for enhanced data durability, known as Mesos Dynamic Reservations and Persistent Volumes
- Integration with syslog-compatible logging services for diagnostics and troubleshooting
- Integration with statsd-compatible metrics services for capacity and performance monitoring