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Doug Szumski authored
Not everyone wants Kafka data stored on a Docker volume. This change allows a user to flexibly control where the data is stored. Change-Id: I2ba8c7a85c7bf2564f954a43c6e6dbb3257fe902
Doug Szumski authoredNot everyone wants Kafka data stored on a Docker volume. This change allows a user to flexibly control where the data is stored. Change-Id: I2ba8c7a85c7bf2564f954a43c6e6dbb3257fe902
kafka-guide.rst 761 B
Apache Kafka
Overview
Kafka is a distributed stream processing system. It forms the central component of Monasca and in an OpenStack context can also be used as an experimental messaging backend in Oslo messaging.
Kafka
A spinning disk array is normally sufficient for Kafka. The data directory
defaults to a docker volume, kafka. Since it can use a lot of disk space,
you may wish to store the data on a dedicated device. This can be achieved by
setting kafka_datadir_volume in /etc/kolla/globals.yml:
kafka_datadir_volume: /mnt/spinning_array/kafka/