guide.md

Running Kafkatorio

Building the project

Requirements

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Java 11

Kafkatorio uses Gradle to build the project, and Docker Compose to create images.

• ./gradlew build - build and test the project
• ./gradlew runKafkatorio - run locally (if Docker is running, a Kafka instance will start)
• ./gradlew dockerComposeBuild - build, test, and create Kafkatorio Docker images

Server set up

See ./kafkatorio-platform/docker-compose.yml for a complete example

1. Copy the kafkatorio-platform directory to your computer

2. Rename example.secret.kafkatorio-config.yml to .secret.kafkatorio-config.yml

   In it, define both

   • a JWT secret password (a long alphanumeric string is best, you won't need to type this password manually)
   • a Factorio server, with a short-ID and a description.

3. Rename example.env to .env

4. Create a JWT for your Factorio server, by going to https://jwt.io/

   • In 'PAYLOAD: DATA', set sub to your Factorio server's short ID.

     {
       "sub": "<your server short ID>",
       "iat": ...
     }

     (iat, 'issued-at-time', should update automatically to be the current time.)
   • Replace your-256-bit-secret with your JWT secret password

   Copy the 'Encoded' token (it should start with ey).

   In the .env file, set KAFKATORIO_TOKEN to equal the token.

5. In kafkatorio-platform, start the docker containers

   docker-compose up -d; docker-compose logs -f