Getting Started with Kafka on Kind Cluster

Apache Kafka is one of the most widely used event streaming platforms for building real time data pipelines and streaming applications. Before implementing Kafka in production environments, it is important to understand its core concepts, architecture, and operational model.

A practical way to learn Kafka is by running it locally in a lightweight Kubernetes environment. Kind (Kubernetes in Docker) provides a lightweight Kubernetes environment that can run entirely on a local machine. It is easy to set up and consumes minimal resources.

In this blog, we will be learning how to deploy and run Apache Kafka on a Kind cluster, allowing you to experiment with Kafka concepts and gain hands-on experience in a local development environment.

Prerequisites: Kind installed locally and a single-node Kind cluster.

Deploy Azure Container App with Azure CLI

This blog explains how to setup an Azure DevOps release pipeline to deploy a container app to the Azure Container Environment using an Azure CLI script.

Pre-requisites: 

• Azure DevOps deployment pipeline
•  Azure container app environment 
• Azure Container registry

Add an Azure CLI task to the Azure DevOps pipeline and add following script. The script installs a few required extensions and create a container app.

Container App Deployment with YAML Template

This blog explains how to deploy an Azure container app using a YAML template.

Pre-requisites: 

1. Azure container app environment
2. Azure container registry with docker image

Create a YAML file and add following content to it. 

Add values for Container App name, resource group name, Azure subscription id where resources going to be created, Container App Environment name and resource group, Azure Container Registry (ACR) name, ACR username, ACR password, image path and image tag.

Use an Image from Azure Container Registry in a Different Subscription from an Azure Container App

This blog explains the limitation and a workaround to access Azure Container Registry from Container App Environment when the two resources are in two separate subscriptions.

Pre- requisites: Azure Container App and Azure Container Registry deployed to two separate subscriptions.

Go to Azure Container App and click on Containers. Then Click on Edit and Deploy.