Kafka Broker

The technical documentation of the kafka-broker microservice, which handles the communication between the microservices and the Kafka broker.

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The Kafka broker in the United Manufacturing Hub is a Apache Kafka, that with the help of Zookeeper manages the topics and the partitions. It’s a core component of the stack and is used to communicate between the different microservices.

How it works

Kafka is an event streaming platform that is used to store and process messages. It’s a distributed system that is made up of a cluster of brokers. Each broker is responsible for a subset of the data. The brokers communicate with each other to keep the data in sync. The brokers are also responsible for the replication of the data. The replication factor is the number of copies of each partition that are kept on different brokers.

Kubernetes resources

StatefulSet: united-manufacturing-hub-kafka
Service:
- Internal ClusterIP: united-manufacturing-hub-kafka at port 9092
- Internal ClusterIP (headless): united-manufacturing-hub-kafka-headless at port 9092
- External LoadBalancer: united-manufacturing-hub-kafka-0-external at port 9094
ConfigMap: united-manufacturing-hub-kafka-scripts
Secret: united-manufacturing-hub-kafka-broker-secrets
PersistentVolumeClaim: data-united-manufacturing-hub-kafka-0

Configuration

You shouldn’t need to configure the Kafka broker manually, as it’s configured automatically when the cluster is deployed. However, if you need to change the configuration, you can do it by editing the kafka section of the Helm chart values file.

Environment variables

Environment variables
Variable name	Description	Type	Allowed values	Default
`ALLOW_PLAINTEXT_LISTENER`	Allow to use the PLAINTEXT listener	string	Any	yes
`BITNAMI_DEBUG`	Specify if debug values should be set	`bool`	`true`, `false`	`false`
`KAFKA_CFG_ALLOW_EVERYONE_IF_NO_ACL_FOUND`	Allow resources with no associated ACL	`bool`	`true`, `false`	`true`
`KAFKA_CFG_AUTHORIZER_CLASS_NAME`	Class name of the Authorizer	string	Any	""
`KAFKA_CFG_AUTO_CREATE_TOPICS_ENABLE`	Whether topics get generated automatically	`bool`	`true`, `false`	`true`
`KAFKA_CFG_DEFAULT_REPLICATION_FACTOR`	Default replication factors for automatically created topics	int	Any	1
`KAFKA_CFG_DELETE_TOPIC_ENABLE`	Whether topic deletion is enabled	`bool`	`true`, `false`	`false`
`KAFKA_CFG_LISTENERS`	The address(es) the socket server listens on	string	Any	INTERNAL://:9093,CLIENT://:9092,EXTERNAL://:9094
`KAFKA_CFG_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP`	The protocol to listener mapping	string	Any	INTERNAL:PLAINTEXT,CLIENT:PLAINTEXT,EXTERNAL:PLAINTEXT
`KAFKA_CFG_LOG_DIRS`	A comma separated list of directories in which kafka’s log data is kept	string	Any	/bitnami/kafka/data
`KAFKA_CFG_LOG_FLUSH_INTERVAL_MESSAGES`	The number of messages to accept before forcing a flush of data to disk	int	Any	10000
`KAFKA_CFG_LOG_FLUSH_INTERVAL_MS`	The maximum amount of time a message can sit in a log before a forced flush	int	Any	1000
`KAFKA_CFG_LOG_RETENTION_BYTES`	A size-based retention policy for logs	int	Any	26214400
`KAFKA_CFG_LOG_RETENTION_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS`	The interval at which log segments are checked to see if they can be deleted	int	Any	300000
`KAFKA_CFG_LOG_RETENTION_HOURS`	The minimum age of a log file to be eligible for deletion due to age	int	Any	168
`KAFKA_CFG_LOG_SEGMENT_BYTES`	The maximum size of a log segment file. When this size is reached a new log segment will be created	int	Any	10485760
`KAFKA_CFG_MESSAGE_MAX_BYTES`	The largest record batch size allowed by Kafka	int	Any	1000012
`KAFKA_CFG_NUM_IO_THREADS`	The number of threads doing disk I/O	int	Any	8
`KAFKA_CFG_NUM_NETWORK_THREADS`	The number of threads handling network requests	int	Any	3
`KAFKA_CFG_NUM_PARTITIONS`	The default number of log partitions per topic	int	Any	6
`KAFKA_CFG_NUM_RECOVERY_THREADS_PER_DATA_DIR`	The number of threads per data directory to be used for log recovery at startup and flushing at shutdown	int	Any	1
`KAFKA_CFG_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR`	The replication factor for the offsets topic	int	Any	1
`KAFKA_CFG_SOCKET_RECEIVE_BUFFER_BYTES`	The receive buffer (SO_RCVBUF) used by the socket server	int	Any	102400
`KAFKA_CFG_SOCKET_REQUEST_MAX_BYTES`	The maximum size of a request that the socket server will accept (protection against OOM)	int	Any	104857600
`KAFKA_CFG_SOCKET_SEND_BUFFER_BYTES`	The send buffer (SO_SNDBUF) used by the socket server	int	Any	102400
`KAFKA_CFG_SUPER_USERS`	List of super users	string	Any	User:admin
`KAFKA_CFG_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR`	Overridden min.insync.replicas config for the transaction topic	int	Any	1
`KAFKA_CFG_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR`	The replication factor for the transaction topic	int	Any	1
`KAFKA_CFG_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT`	URL of ZooKeeper	string	Any	united-manufacturing-hub-zookeeper
`KAFKA_CFG_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT_MS`	Timeout in ms for connecting to ZooKeeper	int	Any	6000
`KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS`	Kafka Java Heap size	string	Any	-Xmx2048m -Xms2048m
`KAFKA_INTER_BROKER_LISTENER_NAME`	The listener that the brokers should communicate on	string	Any	INTERNAL
`KAFKA_LOG_DIR`	Mount path of the Kafka logs volume	string	Any	/opt/bitnami/kafka/logs
`KAFKA_VOLUME_DIR`	Mount path of the Kafka data volume	string	Any	/bitnami/kafka
`KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_PROTOCOL`	The protocol to use with ZooKeeper	string	Any	PLAINTEXT

Last modified April 17, 2023: build: version 0.9.13 (6cb0a01)