README.md

Spring Boot Kafka Example

This is to demonstrate two simple spring boot microservices which uses kafka to send and receive messages.

Overview

Project structure:

1. Producer
2. Consumer
3. Docker-compose-files
4. Postman

Postman

This is collection of postman api's for producer and consumer. Producer can send the messages in string format or json format. ProducerMsg contains sending information via string. ProducerInformation contains informationModel as Json data.

Docker-compose-files

This contains two docker-compose files

1. only zookeeper and kafka
2. Entire application

Producer

Here producer uses Apache.kafka library KafkaProducer to send the information.

Note

If you want to run producer in IDE, please change kafka.server=localhost:29092 in application.properties.

Consumer

Consumer uses Apache kafka library KafkaConsumer to retrive messages from the kafka. Executors [Thread] is used to read the information from the kafka bus. Upon reading the information, it is placed in internal queue. This used when user try to do get request for messages. Upon performing get operation, messages in the queue are cleared.

Note

If you want to run producer in IDE, please change kafka.server=localhost:29092 in application.properties.

Build procedure

Please pull the latest zookeeper and kafka images

Pulling zookeeper and kafka images

docker pull confluentinc/cp-kafka
docker pull confluentinc/cp-zookeeper

Build producer

Navigate to producer folder

./gradlew build -x test
docker build -t producer .

Build consumer

Navigate to consumer folder

./gradlew build -x test
docker build -t consumer .

Running End to End Dockers

Navigate to docker-compose-files

docker-compose up -d

Stopping docker containers

Navigate to docker-compose-files

docker-compose down

Running only zookeeper and kafka [Only if you want to run producer and consumer in IDE]

Navigate to docker-compose-files

docker-compose -f docker-compose-only-kafka-zookeeper.yml up -d