Usage Patterns

The AMQ Streams collection is defined with a set of different roles to automate a Kafka ecosystem in a proper way inside Ansible playbooks, following the common practices of Ansible.

This collection is designed to be used by these guidelines:

• Each Kafka component will have its own playbook bound to its own set of hosts

• Define a playbook for each component and life cycle

The following scenarios can be implemented with this collection:

• Kafka all-in-one deployment, a playbook using the main roles (amq_streams_zookeeper, amq_streams_broker) using the same inventory of hosts (e.g.: hosts: all).

• Kafka distributed deployment, two different playbooks with different inventories to deploy the Zookeeper ensemble and Kafka brokers in separate hosts (e.g: hosts: zookeeper, hosts: broker)

• Kafka connect deployment, a playbook using its own inventory to deploy the Kafka Connect cluster (e.g: hosts: kconnect)

There is a example of each playbook in the playbooks folder.