kaskade 1.1.8

kaskade is a terminal user interface for kafka

kaskade is a read-only tui (text user interface) for kafka.

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For a local kafka environment go to https://github.com/sauljabin/kafka-docker.

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Installation and Usage
• Running with Docker
• Configuration
  • Kafka
  • Schema Registry
  • Kaskade
  • Other Examples
• Screenshots
• Alternatives
• Development
  • Scripts
  • Docker
  • Bumping Version

Installation and Usage

Install with pip:

pip install kaskade

pip will install kaskade and kskd aliases.

Upgrade with pip:

pip install --upgrade kaskade

Help:

kaskade --help

Version:

kaskade --version

Information, it shows app information:

kaskade --info

Configurations, it shows config examples:

kaskade --configs

Generating a default config yml file:

kaskade --yml

Run without config file (it'll take any of kaskade.yml, kaskade.yaml, config.yml or config.yaml):

kaskade

Run with config file:

kaskade my-config.yml

Running with Docker

Using docker (remember to set a network and volume):

docker run --rm -it --network kafka \
--volume $(pwd):/kaskade \
sauljabin/kaskade:latest

Aliases:

alias kaskade='docker run --rm -it --network kafka \
--volume $(pwd):/kaskade \
sauljabin/kaskade:latest'
alias kskd=kaskade

These aliases will mount the current directory as a volume.

Configuration

A yaml configuration file (check Installation and Usage section for more information).

Kafka

Simple connection example:

kafka:
  bootstrap.servers: localhost:9092

SSL encryption example:

kafka:
  bootstrap.servers: localhost:9092
  security.protocol: SSL

For more information about SSL encryption and SSL authentication go to confluent-kafka and librdkafka.

Support for env variables:

kafka:
  bootstrap.servers: ${BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS}

Schema Registry

Simple connection example:

schema.registry:
  url: http://localhost:8081

Kaskade

Next settings are optional:

kaskade:
  debug: off # enable debug mode, default off
  refresh: on # enable auto-refresh, default on
  refresh.rate: 5 # auto-refresh rate, default 5 secs
  show.internals: off # show internal topics, default off

debug enabled will generate logs into a specific log file, execute kaskade --info to get the log path.

Other Examples

Confluent Cloud:

kafka:
  bootstrap.servers: ${BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS}
  security.protocol: SASL_SSL
  sasl.mechanism: PLAIN
  sasl.username: ${CLUSTER_API_KEY}
  sasl.password: ${CLUSTER_API_SECRET}

schema.registry:
  url: ${SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL}
  basic.auth.user.info: ${SR_API_KEY}:${SR_API_SECRET}

Screenshots

Alternatives

• cli: [kcat, zoe, kaf]
• wui: [akhq]
• tui: [kcli]

Development

Python supported versions:

Installing poetry:

pip install poetry

Installing development dependencies:

poetry install

Installing pre-commit hooks:

poetry run pre-commit install

Running kaskade:

poetry run kaskade

Scripts

Running unit tests:

poetry run python -m scripts.tests

Applying code styles:

poetry run python -m scripts.styles

Running code analysis:

poetry run python -m scripts.analyze

Running code coverage:

poetry run python -m scripts.tests-coverage

Running pre-commit hooks:

poetry run python -m scripts.pre-commit

Generate readme banner:

poetry run python -m scripts.banner

Docker

Build docker:

poetry run python -m scripts.docker-build

Image tag sauljabin/kaskade:latest.

Run with docker (create a config.yml file):

docker run --rm -it --network kafka \
--volume $(pwd):/kaskade \
sauljabin/kaskade:latest

Bumping Version

Help:

poetry run python -m scripts.release --help

More info at https://python-poetry.org/docs/cli/#version and https://semver.org/.

Upgrade (major.minor.patch):

poetry run python -m scripts.release patch