Evaluating AMQ Streams on OpenShift Container Platform

Red Hat AMQ 7.4

For use with AMQ Streams 1.2

Abstract

This guide describes how to install and manage AMQ Streams to evaluate its potential use in a production environment.

Chapter 1. Overview of AMQ Streams

AMQ Streams is based on Apache Kafka, a popular platform for streaming data delivery and processing. AMQ Streams makes it easy to run Apache Kafka on OpenShift.

AMQ Streams provides three operators:

Cluster Operator
Responsible for deploying and managing Apache Kafka clusters within an OpenShift cluster.
Topic Operator
Responsible for managing Kafka topics within a Kafka cluster running within an OpenShift cluster.
User Operator
Responsible for managing Kafka users within a Kafka cluster running within an OpenShift cluster.

Operators within the AMQ Streams architecture

Operators

This guide describes how to install and use Red Hat AMQ Streams.

1.1. Kafka Key Features

  • Designed for horizontal scalability
  • Message ordering guarantee at the partition level
  • Message rewind/replay

    • "Long term" storage allows the reconstruction of an application state by replaying the messages
    • Combines with compacted topics to use Kafka as a key-value store

Additional resources

1.2. Document Conventions

Replaceables

In this document, replaceable text is styled in monospace and italics.

For example, in the following code, you will want to replace my-namespace with the name of your namespace:

sed -i 's/namespace: .*/namespace: my-namespace/' install/cluster-operator/*RoleBinding*.yaml

Chapter 2. Try AMQ Streams

Install AMQ Streams and start sending and receiving messages from a topic in minutes.

Ensure you have the prerequisites and then follow the tasks in the order provided in this chapter.

2.1. Prerequisites

  • OpenShift Container Platform cluster (3.11 and later) running on which to deploy AMQ Streams

2.2. Downloading AMQ Streams

Download a zip file that contains the resources required for installation and examples for configuration.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Download the amq-streams-x.y.z-ocp-install-examples.zip file from the AMQ Streams download site.
  2. Unzip the file to any destination.

    • On Windows or Mac, you can extract the contents of the ZIP archive by double clicking on the ZIP file.
    • On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, open a terminal window in the target machine and navigate to where the ZIP file was downloaded.

      Extract the ZIP file by executing the following command:

      unzip amq-streams-x.y.z-ocp-install-examples.zip

2.3. Installing AMQ Streams

Install AMQ Streams with the CRDs required for deployment.

Prerequisites

  • Installation requires a user with cluster-admin role, such as system:admin

Procedure

  1. Login in to the OpenShift cluster with cluster admin privileges.

    For example:

    oc login -u system:admin
  2. Modify the installation files according to the kafka namespace where you will install the AMQ Streams Kafka Cluster Operator.

    Note

    By default, the files work in the myproject namespace.

    • On Linux, use:

      sed -i 's/namespace: .*/namespace: kafka/' install/cluster-operator/*RoleBinding*.yaml
    • On Mac, use:

      sed -i '' 's/namespace: .*/namespace: kafka/' install/cluster-operator/*RoleBinding*.yaml
  3. Deploy the Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and role-based access control (RBAC) resources to manage the CRDs.

    oc new-project kafka
    oc apply -f install/cluster-operator/
  4. Create the project my-kafka-project where you will deploy your Kafka cluster.

    oc new-project my-kafka-project
  5. Give access to your non-admin user developer.

    oc adm policy add-role-to-user admin developer -n my-kafka-project
  6. Enable the Cluster Operator to watch that namespace.

    oc set env deploy/strimzi-cluster-operator STRIMZI_NAMESPACE=kafka,my-kafka-project -n kafka
    oc apply -f install/cluster-operator/020-RoleBinding-strimzi-cluster-operator.yaml -n my-kafka-project
    oc apply -f install/cluster-operator/032-RoleBinding-strimzi-cluster-operator-topic-operator-delegation.yaml -n my-kafka-project
    oc apply -f install/cluster-operator/031-RoleBinding-strimzi-cluster-operator-entity-operator-delegation.yaml -n my-kafka-project
  7. Create the new cluster role strimzi-admin.

    oc apply -f install/strimzi-admin
  8. Add the role to the non-admin user developer.

    oc adm policy add-cluster-role-to-user strimzi-admin developer

2.4. Creating a cluster

Create a Kafka cluster, then a topic within the cluster.

When you create a cluster, the Cluster Operator you deployed listens for new Kafka resources.

Prerequisites

  • For the Kafka cluster, a Cluster Operator is deployed
  • For the topic, a running Kafka cluster

Procedure

  1. Login as a user.

    For example:

    oc login -u developer
    oc project my-kafka-project
  2. Create a new my-cluster Kafka cluster with 3 Zookeeper and 3 broker nodes.

    • Use ephemeral storage
    • Expose the Kafka cluster outside of the OpenShift cluster using an external listener configured to use route.

      cat << EOF | oc create -f -
      apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta1
      kind: Kafka
      metadata:
        name: my-cluster
      spec:
        kafka:
          replicas: 3
          listeners:
            plain: {}
            tls: {}
            external:
              type: route
          storage:
            type: ephemeral
        zookeeper:
          replicas: 3
          storage:
            type: ephemeral
        entityOperator:
          topicOperator: {}
      EOF
  3. Now that your cluster is running, create a topic to publish and subscribe from your external client.

    Create the following my-topic custom resource definition with 3 replicas and 3 partitions in the my-cluster Kafka cluster:

    cat << EOF | oc create -f -
    apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta1
    kind: KafkaTopic
    metadata:
      name: my-topic
      labels:
        strimzi.io/cluster: "my-cluster"
    spec:
      partitions: 3
      replicas: 3
    EOF

2.5. Accessing the cluster

As route is used for external access to the cluster, a cluster CA certificate is required to enable TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption between the broker and the client.

Prerequisites

  • A Kafka cluster running within the OpenShift cluster
  • A running Cluster Operator

Procedure

  1. Find the address of the bootstrap route:

    oc get routes my-cluster-kafka-bootstrap -o=jsonpath='{.status.ingress[0].host}{"\n"}'

    Use the address together with port 443 in your Kafka client as the bootstrap address.

  2. Extract the public certificate of the broker certification authority:

    oc extract secret/my-cluster-cluster-ca-cert --keys=ca.crt --to=- > ca.crt
  3. Import the trusted certificate to a truststore:

    keytool -keystore client.truststore.jks -alias CARoot -import -file ca.crt

    You are now ready to start sending and receiving messages.

2.6. Sending and receiving messages from a topic

Test your AMQ Streams installation by sending and receiving messages outside the cluster from my-topic.

In this procedure, you access AMQ Streams from a local client.

Prerequisites

  • AMQ Streams is installed on the OpenShift cluster
  • Zookeeper and Kafka are running
  • Access to the latest version of the Red Hat AMQ Streams archive from the AMQ Streams download site.

Procedure

  1. Download the latest version of the AMQ Streams archive (amq-streams-x.y.z-bin.zip) from the AMQ Streams download site.

    Unzip the file to any destination.

  2. Start the Kafka console producer with the topic my-topic and the authentication properties for TLS:

    bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list <route-address>:443 --producer-property security.protocol=SSL --producer-property ssl.truststore.password=password --producer-property ssl.truststore.location=./client.truststore.jks --topic my-topic
  3. Type your message into the console where the producer is running.
  4. Press Enter to send the message.
  5. Press Ctrl+C to exit the Kafka console producer.
  6. Start the consumer to receive the messages:

    bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server <route-address>:443 --consumer-property security.protocol=SSL --consumer-property ssl.truststore.password=password --consumer-property ssl.truststore.location=./client.truststore.jks --topic my-topic --from-beginning
  7. Confirm that you see the incoming messages in the consumer console.
  8. Press Crtl+C to exit the Kafka console consumer.

Appendix A. Using Your Subscription

AMQ Streams is provided through a software subscription. To manage your subscriptions, access your account at the Red Hat Customer Portal.

Accessing Your Account

  1. Go to access.redhat.com.
  2. If you do not already have an account, create one.
  3. Log in to your account.

Activating a Subscription

  1. Go to access.redhat.com.
  2. Navigate to My Subscriptions.
  3. Navigate to Activate a subscription and enter your 16-digit activation number.

Downloading Zip and Tar Files

To access zip or tar files, use the customer portal to find the relevant files for download. If you are using RPM packages, this step is not required.

  1. Open a browser and log in to the Red Hat Customer Portal Product Downloads page at access.redhat.com/downloads.
  2. Locate the Red Hat AMQ Streams entries in the JBOSS INTEGRATION AND AUTOMATION category.
  3. Select the desired AMQ Streams product. The Software Downloads page opens.
  4. Click the Download link for your component.

Revised on 2019-07-15 15:33:37 UTC

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