Can Knative's Kafka Broker be fed with events from outside its cluster?

Question

When I setup a kafka broker, its URL by default using

e.g. "http://kafka-broker-ingress.knative-eventing.svc.cluster.local/example/default"

I am only able to send event from resource within k8 cluster.

Is it possible to setup a kafka broker using public facing URL, so that it could receive events from outside the cluster? If can. How?

Thank you

Answer 1

This isn't supported out-of-the-box but you can use a Kubernetes ingress.

A minimal example:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: example-default-broker
  namespace: knative-eventing
spec:
  rules:
  - host: <my_host>
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /example/default
        pathType: Exact
        backend:
          service:
            name: kafka-broker-ingress
            port:
              number: 80

If you want to create the ingress resource in your example namespace and connect it to the kafka-broker-ingress service, look at Kubernetes Cross Namespace Ingress Network.