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What? It’s pretty easy to set up and get going
by whatscooking 3y ago
What? It’s pretty easy to set up and get going
- whalesalad 3y agoThe last time I was running a cluster it was 2014-2015 and it was not too bad to get up and running, but it felt so heavy handed for what it was. The zookeeper requirement was frustrating. The fact that consumers needed to maintain offset state was frustrating (although... understandable). For the right use case I suppose it is 100% worthwhile but more often than not I have seen it used in places where other tools would be more appropriate.
- lmm 3y agoThey've made Zookeeper optional now, although they're being understandably conservative about that (e.g. only declared it production-ready a year or two ago).
- insanitybit 3y agoGetting a distributed set up plugged into your k8s/whatever framework can be a pain.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoHave you tried Strimzi?
- saryant 3y agoThe issue there is running it on k8s. On bare metal or even VMs it’s not at all hard to run even at scale.
- insanitybit 3y agoWell when all of your services are in k8s, and your service discovery is on k8s, etc, you tend to put things like Kafka into K8s.