What is it

This is a simple web application to proxy HTTP traffic to a Kafka cluster. It exposes a /publish route that you can POST a Kafka message to.

The payload to POST is:

interface PublishData {
    topic: string;
    message: string; // a JSON stringified string of your message
}

Authentication

An Authentication header must be present otherwise all requests will be rejected. The auth token can be set via the AUTH_TOKEN key in the env file.

Compilation instructions:

• install cross
• run cross build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

Deployment instructions:

• Upload compiled binary to the internet
• cd /home
• curl -o kafka-proxy <uploaded_file_url>
• chmod +x kafka-proxy
• make a systemd service and start it :)