Setup Kafka Github Action

Action for easily setting up a Kafka cluster in your CI/CD pipeline.

Usage

Simply include the action as a step in your Workflow:

- name: Setup Kafka Cluster
  id: kafka
  uses: deusebio/setup-kafka-action@main

This will give your job an environment with the following:

The actions takes the following parameters as input

Name	Description	Default
`broker-units`	Number of Kafka broker to be used	1
`zookeeper-units`	Number of ZooKeeper servers to be used	1
`topic`	Name for the requested topic. The `user-roles` parameter sets the permission level on such topic	"test-topic"
`user-roles`	Role for the user to be created on the requested topic	"admin"
`model`	Name of the Juju model where to deploy the cluster	"kafka"

Once the Kafka cluster is deployed, the actions provides the following parameters as output

Name	Description
`bootstrap-server`	Address for the bootstrap server to be used to connect to Kafka
`username`	User created in the Kafka cluster for external use
`password`	Password for the admin user

The output parameters can be refer using the action-id, e.g.

steps.<step-id>.outputs.bootstrap-server

The Setup Kafka Github Action is free software, distributed under the Apache Software License, version 2.0. See LICENSE for more information.