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Kafka Proxy for Solace Event Brokers
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Kafka Proxy for Solace Event Brokers
High-performance proxy that allows Kafka clients to publish and subscribe to Solace Event Broker without any changes to the Kafka client application. The proxy speaks the native Kafka wireline protocol to Kafka client applications and the Solace SMF protocol to the Solace Event Broker.
Key Features:
- Protocol Translation: Transparent conversion between Kafka wireline protocol and Solace SMF
- Producer Support: Kafka topics can be published unmodified or converted to hierarchical Solace topics
- Consumer Support: Full consumer group management with mapping to Solace queues and topic subscriptions
- Security: Comprehensive SSL/TLS and mTLS support for both Kafka clients and Solace connections
- Kubernetes Ready: Production-ready deployment configurations for AWS EKS
For producers, Kafka topics can be published to the Solace Event Mesh unmodified, or converted to hierarchical Solace topics by splitting on specified characters. For consumers, the proxy manages consumer groups and topic subscriptions, mapping them to Solace queues and topic subscriptions with configurable queue naming strategies.