Kafka Sink

The sink will publish the result into a Kafka .

Compile & deploy plugin

build in shell

# cd $eKuiper_src
# go build -trimpath --buildmode=plugin -o plugins/sinks/kafka.so extensions/sinks/kafka/kafka.go
# zip kafka.zip plugins/sinks/kafka.so
# cp kafka.zip /root/tomcat_path/webapps/ROOT/
# bin/kuiper create plugin sink kafka -f /tmp/kafkaPlugin.txt
# bin/kuiper create rule kafka -f /tmp/kafkaRule.txt

build with image

docker build -t demo/plugins:v1 -f build/plugins/Dockerfile .
docker run demo/plugins:v1
docker cp  90eae15a7245:/workspace/_plugins/debian/sinks /tmp

Dockerfile like this：

## plase check go version that kuiper used
ARG GO_VERSION=1.23.1
FROM ghcr.io/lf-edge/ekuiper/base:$GO_VERSION-debian AS builder
WORKDIR /workspace
ADD . /workspace/
RUN go env -w GOPROXY=https://goproxy.cn,direct
RUN make plugins_c
CMD ["sleep","3600"]

add this in Makefile：

PLUGINS_CUSTOM := sinks/kafka

.PHONY: plugins_c $(PLUGINS_CUSTOM)
plugins_c: $(PLUGINS_CUSTOM)

$(PLUGINS_CUSTOM): PLUGIN_TYPE = $(word 1, $(subst /, , $@))
$(PLUGINS_CUSTOM): PLUGIN_NAME = $(word 2, $(subst /, , $@))
$(PLUGINS_CUSTOM):
  @$(CURDIR)/build-plugins.sh $(PLUGIN_TYPE) $(PLUGIN_NAME)

Restart the eKuiper server to activate the plugin.

Properties

Property name	Optional	Description
brokers	false	The broker address list ,split with ","
topic	false	The topic of the Kafka
saslAuthType	false	The Kafka sasl authType, support none,plain,scram
saslUserName	true	The sasl user name
saslPassword	true	The sasl password
insecureSkipVerify	true	whether to ignore SSL verification
certificationPath	true	Kafka client ssl verification Cert file path
privateKeyPath	true	Key file path for Kafka client SSL verification
rootCaPath	true	Kafka client ssl verified CA certificate file path
certficationRaw	true	Kafka client ssl verified Cert base64 encoded original text, use certificationPath first if both defined
privateKeyRaw	true	Kafka client ssl verified Key base64 encoded original text, use privateKeyPath first if both defined
rootCARaw	true	Kafka client ssl verified CA base64 encoded original text, use rootCaPath first if both defined
maxAttempts	true	The number of retries the Kafka client sends messages to the server, the default is 1
requiredACKs	true	The mechanism for Kafka client to confirm messages, -1 means waiting for leader confirmation, 1 means waiting for confirmation from all replicas, 0 means not waiting for confirmation, default -1
key	true	Key information carried by the Kafka client in messages sent to the server
headers	true	The header information carried by the Kafka client in the message sent to the server

You can check the connectivity of the corresponding sink endpoint in advance through the API: Connectivity Check

Setting Kafka Key and Headers

Set the metadata when the Kafka client sends messages through keys and headers:

{
    "key": "keyValue",
    "headers": {
        "headerKey1": "headerValue1",
        "headerKey2": "headerValue2"
    }
}

Through the template template, dynamically set the metadata when the Kafka client sends a message:

{
    "key": "{{.data.key}}",
    "headers": {
        "headerKey1": "{{.data.col1}}",
        "headerKey2": "{{.data.col2}}"
    }
}

Set the key metadata of the map structure in the Kafka client:

{
  "key": "{\"keyMapkey\":\"{{.data.key.value}}\"}"
}

Other common sink properties are supported. Please refer to the sink common properties for more information.

Sample usage

Below is a sample for selecting temperature great than 50 degree, and some profiles only for your reference.

/tmp/kafkaRule.txt

{
  "id": "kafka",
  "sql": "SELECT * from demo_stream where temperature > 50",
  "actions": [
    {
      "log": {}
    },
    {
      "kafka":{
        "brokers": "127.0.0.1:9092,127.0.0.2:9092",
        "topic": "test_topic",
        "saslAuthType": "none"
      }
    }
  ]
}

/tmp/kafkaPlugin.txt

{
   "file":"http://localhost:8080/kafka.zip"
 }

Notice

If ekuiper and kafka are deployed in the same container network through docker compose, you can configure the brokers address through the kafka hostname in ekuiper. But kafka needs special attention KAFKA_CFG_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS needs to be configured as the host IP address, as shown below

    zookeeper:
     image: docker.io/bitnami/zookeeper:3.8
     hostname: zookeeper
     container_name: zookeeper
     ports:
      - "2181:2181"
     volumes:
      - "zookeeper_data:/bitnami"
     environment:
       - ALLOW_ANONYMOUS_LOGIN=yes
    kafka:
     image: docker.io/bitnami/kafka:3.4
     hostname: kafka
     container_name: kafka
     ports:
      - "9092:9092"
     volumes:
      - "kafka_data:/bitnami"
     environment:
      - KAFKA_CFG_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT=zookeeper:2181
      - ALLOW_PLAINTEXT_LISTENER=yes
      - KAFKA_CFG_LISTENERS=PLAINTEXT://:9092
      - KAFKA_CFG_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS=PLAINTEXT://<YOUR_HOST_IP>:9092
     depends_on:
      - zookeeper