Galapagos is a DevOps Self-Service Software for Apache Kafka, including an opinionated approach on how to use Kafka for event-driven enterprise architecture.
See Event-Driven Architecture Principles for our principles for an Enterprise-wide Event-Driven Architecture, and Kafka Guidelines for the guidelines for Kafka usage which result directly from these principles. Galapagos is our tool to "enforce" these Guidelines, while not putting additional burden on DevOps teams.
Initial Source Code has been published. You can now checkout the source and build Galapagos yourself. Additional docs on project structure and how-tos will be added, stay tuned.
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To build Galapagos, just run
mvn package
to get a Spring Boot executable JAR.
To run Galapagos, you'll need additional services like (at least) two Kafka clusters and a Keycloak. You'll find a script which configures a local Minikube to provide these dependencies in the devsetup folder. Additional documentation for this setup will follow, but you can already check the setup-dev.sh script to find out what is required to run Galapagos. If you have made it through the Demo Setup successfully, the DEV Setup should be no problem for you.