Inventory Service Kafka Producer

This Node.JS Application is part of the Inventory Service for the IBM Cloud Native Toolkit Journey. This application allows users to produce a message to a kafka topic notifying all consumers that an update to an item in inventory has occured.

Environment Setup

Install the application dependencies by running the following:

npm install

Running Kafka

Make sure you have an instance of kafka running either locally or remotely.

Following the instruction here for running kafka locally.

Kafka Configuration

Modify the Kafka Configuration Code to match your Kafka configuration in order for your application to properly communicate with your Kafka instance.

Local Development

To start the server run:

npm run dev

Access the swagger page via http:localhost:3000

OpenShift Deployment

Deploying to Openshift...

Contributors

• Bryan Kribbs (bakribbs@us.ibm.com)