> It installs like an appliance and feels like you are grappling with a legacy tool weighed down by a classic view on architecture and maintenance. This is act

> It installs like an appliance and feels like you are grappling with a legacy tool weighed down by a classic view on architecture and maintenance. This is actually a fair and well-articulated point of view. NiFi is currently an "appliance" like you said. Worse, it's a Pet and not a Cattle. I believe there is active work in the community to address some of that pain. For example, there was a recent addition to NiFi called "stateless NiFi" which enables NiFi to better run in Kubernetes and other "cloud" architectures. It's not there yet, it's still what would be described as a "fat" application. But I believe that eventually NiFi will evolve to more like a command-and-control tool for the cloud and less like something you have to install directly to your hardware. We hopefully see the day where "NiFi-as-a-Service" exists, which would really be an improvement over the current model.