Overview

Service Overview

Event Streams provides fully managed creation and configuration of the open source Apache Kafka for large-scale, massive message data processing. Samsung Cloud Platform automates the creation and configuration of Apache Kafka through a web-based console, and users can configure the main components of Apache Kafka—Broker, Zookeeper, and AKHQ—in a single or clustered form.

Event Streams cluster is composed of multiple Broker nodes, and Brokers can be installed from a minimum of 1 to a maximum of 10, typically installed with 3 or more. Zookeeper can be installed separately to manage the distributed Brokers, and if not installed separately, it is installed together on the Broker node. Additionally, a tool for managing Kafka called AKHQ (Apache Kafka HQ) is provided, allowing users to manage cluster operations through it.

Provided Features

Event Streams provides the following features.

• Auto Provisioning (Auto Provisioning): You can configure and set up an Apache Kafka cluster via the UI.
• Operation Control Management: Provides a function to control the status of running servers. Restart is possible to apply configuration values, along with starting and stopping the cluster.
• Providing AKHQ: By providing AKHQ, a tool that can manage Kafka, users can manage and monitor clusters through it.
• Broker node addition: If expansion is needed to improve cluster performance and stability, you can add nodes with the same specifications as the Broker nodes in use.
• Parameter Management: Performance improvement and security-related configuration parameters can be set and modified.
• Monitoring: CPU, memory, and cluster performance monitoring information can be viewed through the Cloud Monitoring service.

Components

Event Streams provides pre-validated engine versions and various server types in accordance with the open source support policy. Users can select and use them according to the scale of the service they wish to configure.

Engine Version

The engine versions supported by Event Streams are as follows.

Technical support can be used until the supplier’s EoTS (End of Technical Service) date, and the EOS date when new creation is stopped is set to six months before the EoTS date.

According to the supplier’s policy, the EOS and EoTS dates may change, so please refer to the supplier’s license management policy page for details.

• Apache Kafka: https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/installation/versions-interoperability.html

Server Type

The server types supported by Event Streams are as follows.

For detailed information about the server types provided by Event Streams, please refer to Event Streams Server Types.

Standard ess1v2m4

Preceding Service

This is a list of services that must be pre-configured before creating the service. Please refer to the guide provided for each service for details and prepare in advance.