kafka-schnapp

It's a snap. It's a charm. It's a schnapp.

This project compiles Kafka from source into a snap and embeds that into a charm that then operates it. Because the snap is installed locally, there is no concern over auto-upgrades in snaps.

Building

make sysdeps
make all

Will build the Kafka snap, and then the charm in charm/builds/kafka.

Quick start

cd charm
juju deploy ./bundle.yaml

Notes

The Kafka charm requires at least 4GB of memory.

Details

Much of the charm implementation is borrowed from the Apache Bigtop kafka charm, but it's been heavily simplified and pared down. Jinja templating is used instead of Puppet, and a few helper functions that were imported from libraries are inlined.

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