Apache Kafka JSON message faking

Motivation 🤔

When developing applications which use Apache Kafka as a messaging queue, it is sometimes good to have fake data flowing through it for development purposes. Kafka Faker allows you to do that conveniently through a web UI.

Features 📋

• Fake data generation by Faker
• Create dynamic JSON objects: nest objects, arrays
• Send messages manually or periodically
• Save and load message schemas
• See the session's message history
• Containerized

Demo 🖼️

You can try out the demo mode of the UI here!

Disclaimer: this application is inteded for desktop/laptop users, so the design is not mobile responsive.

Application stack 📚

1. Front end
2. Back end
3. Kafka cluster
4. MySQL database

Set Kafka Faker up 🕹️

This application is published as images on Docker Hub:

• Front end
• Back end

See an example Docker compose file here