Kafka AMQ Stream - Topics command

Question

I've never used AMQ Streams (Kafka). How can I connect to topics through the route (read/create/delete)? With Kafka, for example from my local machine, I used the CLI with the basic command. But with AMQ Streams I have only the route. It is a HTTPS URL.

Answer 1

I am guessing you are using the AMQ Streams Operator to run your Pods. There is a good explanation in the following blog post on how to use OpenShift Routes to connect to Kafka.

The Route can be exposed by defining it in the Kafka object like so:

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta1
kind: Kafka
metadata:
  name: my-cluster
spec:
  kafka:
    # ...
    listeners:
      # ...
      external:
        type: route
    # ...