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Stephen A commented on KAFKA-6416:
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I have a Helm chart for Kafka that I can submit to the Kafka repo to become an
official chart. It uses the official Docker image and creates a cluster using
KRaft.
There are options to how properties are handled, and I'd like some feedback on
these. I have build the chart to construct the properties files as ConfigMaps
which are mounted into the containers. This means that any property can be set
as a Helm value.
Kafka properties use a dot notation like `this.is.a.property.name`. To set
values like this in Helm means to map these to nested Yaml values like
{code:java}
this:
is:
a:
property:
name: 'value' {code}
This works nicely for setting values on the command like:
{noformat}
helm install kafka chart --set properties.num.partitions=32{noformat}
but doesn't really make sense in yaml as the properties are not really nested.
Another option would be to replace the dot (`.`) with an underscore. (and
probably a double underscore to represent a an escaped underscore).
A third option would be to use camel case to replace the dots. This is more
in-keeping with Helm values, but could be difficult (impossible) to distinguish
where a property name uses camel case already, for example
log4j.appender.controllerAppender
> Create an official Kafka Helm chart for running a Kafka cluster
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: KAFKA-6416
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-6416
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Wish
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: Matthew T. Adams
> Priority: Major
> Labels: chart, cluster, docker, helm
>
> This issue requests that the Apache Kafka team release a
> [Helm|https://helm.sh] chart for running Kafka as a cluster.
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