Hi, thanks for the swift response. Does this mean that even with the promise of kubernetes' self healing and with the acceptable downtime of a few minutes or seconds deploying kafka on a single node is still not possible??
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 18:23 Jonathan Santilli <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > running Kafka as a single Broker or a cluster of one node voids the whole > purpose you are trying to achieve "...robustness of our system by using > kafka..." > Just think that is that single node goes down, what's gonna happen? Kafka > besides the performance is well known by the availability. > > Cheers! > -- > Jonathan > > > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 7:33 AM Matthew Torres < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to convince my company to use kafka as our message queue system, > was > > wondering if it's possible to run kafka on a single machine. We have a > > unique use case where all our microservices is run on a single machine > and > > currently we are using apache amq as our message queue. > > > > Apache amq is good but I feel that we can improve the robustness of our > > system by using kafka. So my question is, will it be possible to run > kafka > > on a single node/machine as a production. We are using k3s as an > > orchestration so whenever kafka goes down it can just restart it. > > > > Hoping to hear from you soon. Thank you! > > > > *Sincerely,* > > > > *Matthew Aldrin S. Torres* > > > > > -- > Santilli Jonathan >
