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Configuring Kafka Features

There are many different configuration options for how Knative Eventing and the Knaitve Broker for Apache Kafka interact with the Apache Kafka clusters.

Configure Knative Eventing Kafka features

There are various kafka features/default values the Knative Kafka Broker uses when interacting with Kafka.

Consumer Group ID for Triggers

The triggers.consumergroup.template value determines the template used to generate the consumer group ID used by your triggers.

  • Global key: triggers.consumergroup.template
  • Possible values:: Any valid go text/template
  • Default: knative-trigger-{{ .Namespace }}-{{ .Name }}

Example:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: config-kafka-features
  namespace: knative-eventing
data:
  triggers.consumergroup.template: "knative-trigger-{{ .Namespace }}-{{ .Name }}"

Broker topic name template

The brokers.topic.template values determines the template used to generate the Kafka topic names used by your brokers.

  • Global Key: brokers.topic.template
  • Possible values: Any valid go text/template
  • Default: knative-broker-{{ .Namespace }}-{{ .Name }}

Example:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: config-kafka-features
  namespace: knative-eventing
data:
  brokers.topic.template: "knative-broker-{{ .Namespace }}-{{ .Name }}"

Channel topic name template

The channels.topic.template value determines the template used to generate the kafka topic names used by your channels.

  • Global Key: controller-autoscaler-keda
  • Possible values: One of: enabled, disabled
  • Default: disabled
  • Stability: Alpha

Example:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: config-kafka-features
  namespace: knative-eventing
data:
  controller-autoscaler-keda: enabled

Dispatcher autoscaling with KEDA

The controller-autoscaler-keda value determines whether Knative Kafka dispatcher components will autoscale with KEDA. For more information on this feature, please read the documentation here

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