kafka-manager

Installs java and downloads kafka-manager from package cloud
Note, these are unofficial packages. Follow this github issue for the status of official packages.

The packages are currently only available for ubuntu, centos images will be created if needed

spuder/kafka-manager

Warning kafka-manager 1.2.8 and newer don't work well with large clusters. The default is version 1.2.7

Supports

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Centos (Untested)

Usage

This cookbook uses custom resources so chef 12.5 or newer is required. The cookbook can be used in 2 ways

1. As a community cookbook

Create a role and add java and kafka-manager to your run_list

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[apt]",
    "recipe[java]",
    "recipe[kafka-manager]"
  ],
  "default_attributes": {
    "kafka-manager":{
      "zkhosts": "foo:2181,bar:2181",
      "version": "1.2.7"
    }
  }
}

1. As a library cookbook

Create a wrapper cookbook and call the custom resources directly

kafka_manager 'default' do
  repo 'spuder/kafka-manager'
  package_version '1.2.7'
  action :install
end

template '/usr/share/kafka-manager/conf/application.conf' do
  source 'application.conf.erb'
  variables ({
    :zkhosts => "#{node['kafka-manager']['zkhosts']}"
  })
  notifies :restart, 'service[kafka-manager]'
end

service 'kafka-manager' do
  action [ :enable, :start ]
end

If using a wrapper cookbook, you could use search to automatically fetch the zookeeper hosts from the chef server

By default kafka-manager runs on port 9000. You may want to setup a reverse proxy to redirect requests from port 80
A recipe and a custom resource are provided that will install nginx and setup the redirect.

In your role

"run_list": [
  "recipe[apt]",
  "recipe[java]",
  "recipe[kafka-manager]"
  "recipe[kafka-manager::nginx]"
]

Or in your wrapper cookbook

kafka_proxy 'default' do
  action :create
end

Attributes

Change the value of 'zkhosts' to the zookeeper servers

 node['kafka-manager']['zkhosts']= 'foo:2181,bar:2181'

kafka-manager-cookbook is not affiliated with Yahoo or the creators of kafka-manager.