ansible-kafka

Create Kafka cluster with Zookeeper quorum via Ansible over CentOS*.

Usage

Requeriments

• Ansible 2.0 or higher.

Steps

1. Install Ansible on your machine

• Via YUM: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html#latest-release-via-yum
• Via APT: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html#latest-releases-via-apt-ubuntu
• Via PIP: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html#latest-releases-via-pip

For other systems, checkout the installation page of Ansible. http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html

2. Clone this repo

git clone git@github.com:aleonsan/ansible-kafka.git
cd ansible-kafka

3. Edit and customize your hosts file.

4. Run Ansible playbook. Check Tags section and Variables section to see other playbook run options.

ansible-playbook kafka.yml -i hosts _[options]

5. Use Kafka !

• Creating a topic: http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#quickstart_createtopic
• Sending messages: http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#quickstart_send
• Consuming messages: http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#quickstart_consume

Playbook variables

Use command line variables as playbook input:

• force_cleanup: [True/False] Force downloaded packages cleanup. Default or unknown value assumes False.

ansible-playbook kafka.yml -i hosts -e force_cleanup=True 
ansible-playbook kafka.yml -i hosts -e force_cleanup=False 

Playbook tags

Use tags to run a part of the playbook:

ansible-playbook kafka.yml -i hosts tags kafka 
ansible-playbook kafka.yml -i hosts tags "zookeeper,kafka" 
ansible-playbook kafka.yml -i hosts tags "java,zookeeper,kafka" 

• java / java_installation: Install and configure jdk.
• zk_setup: Setup user/group zookeeper into zookeeper nodes.
• zk_installation: Get zookeeper package if needed and install it.
• zk_configuration: Set zookeeper configuration needed, create service script and (re)start it.
• zookeeper: zk_setup + zk_installation + zk_configuration.
• kafka_setup: Setup user/group kafka into zookeeper nodes.
• kafka_installation: Get kafka package if needed and install it.
• kafka_configuration: Set kafka configuration needed, create service script and (re)start it.
• kafka: kafka_setup + kafka_installation + kafka_configuration.

Group variables

GENERAL variables

• package_download_path: Path to download service packages (may be temp).

JAVA variables

ZOOKEEPER variables

KAFKA variables

coming soon