ping~ On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Qi Xu <shkir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kafka folks, > I'm investigating about using Kafka as a data ingress endpoint for our > analytic service. > In our scenario, Kafka cluster is behind NLB which has a public IP, and > the data source service is under another public IP. Basically the data > source service cannot access Kafka cluster nodes directly. And a request > hitting the public IP will be routed to any broker node. If Kafka supports > request forwarding, then our scenario will work. I noticed there's an > article " > http://grokbase.com/t/kafka/users/1441aa74t3/kafka-cluster-behind-a-hardware-load-balancer"; > and Jun Rao clearly stated that Kafka does not do request forwarding. > > I'm wondering if this conclusion is still true for latest Kafka version? > If that, I'm wondering do you have any plan to add the support of request > forwarding? > > If not, what's the best practice do you suggest to solve the problem? > Here're what I think of: > 1) Make the data source service have direct access to Kafka cluster > nodes---unfortunately this is impossible for us. > 2) Make all Kafka cluster nodes have public IP so that they can be > accessed from our data source service. The concerns are a) we may not have > enough IPs, b) the security. > 3) Add a proxy service which in the same network of Kafka, to act as data > ingress service. > What do you suggest? > > I'm new to Kafka and looking forward your reply. Thanks a lot. > > > Tony > > >
