cutejaneii/docker.inputkafkaapi repository overview

⁠Docker.InputKafkaApi

Base on tiangolo/uwsgi-nginx-flask:flask-index⁠, we also installed following software into container for use.

• python-pip
• kafka-python

⁠What this project do ?

Docker.InputKafkaApi is an API allows user to import json data, then put it into kafka topic.

⁠Docker file

Docker file content :

FROM tiangolo/uwsgi-nginx-flask:flask-index

RUN apt-get update

RUN apt-get -y install python-pip

RUN pip install kafka-python

COPY ./app /app

⁠How to use

If you want to modify api, use volume as blow will be better.

docker run -d --name InputKafkaApi -p 8088:80 -v /{folder}/app:/app cutejaneii/Docker.InputKafkaApi

If you do NOT modify api, use following command to create a new container.

docker run -d --name InputKafkaApi -p 8088:80 cutejaneii/Docker.InputKafkaApi

⁠Test

1. Open this url from browser:

http://your_ip:port/index⁠ -- you will see the content "Hello, this is MyKafkaApi."

1. POST to this url with json data:

http://your_ip:port/add⁠

json data:

{
	"topic":"your_topic_name",
	"input_data":"kafka_data"
}

⁠Important!

We do NOT install kafka into this container, please install it if you need, or you can use the KAFKA outside from the container.