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Kafka

Apache Kafka is an Open-Source stream-processing software platform. It is a framework for storing, reading and analyzing streaming data. It exposes an HTTP API for client interaction. See the Kafka documentation for more information.

To use it in your application, add it to .symfony/services.yaml:

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mykafka:
    # supported versions: 2.1
    type: kafka:2.1
    disk: 1024

And wire it in .symfony.cloud.yaml:

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relationships:
    kafka: "mykafka:kafka"

Environment Variables

The configuration is exposed via the following environment variables (where KAFKA is the upper-cased version of the key defined in the relationship above):

  • KAFKA_URL
  • KAFKA_SCHEME
  • KAFKA_HOST
  • KAFKA_PORT
  • KAFKA_IP

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