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

Related Services

• DC/OS Spark