@kaluza/kt v0.11.1

KT

A Kafka / Aiven command line tool that allow you to easily consume and produce to kafka topics with AVRO serialization and deserialization.

Pre-requisite

As passwords are entered in plaintest, please make sure this does not get stored in ~/.bash_history. You can use the following command to allow a space before an command will not be stored there.

echo "HISTCONTROL=ignorespace" >>~/.bashrc

Install

Require nodejs to be installed globally

npm i -g @kaluza/kt

How to use

You will need to first login to Aiven (you only need to login once per environment after install):

kt login user@kaluza.com 1234

Login for production:

kt login user@kaluza.com 1234 -e vnet-prd

Consume (default: vnet-dev):

kt consume TEST_OUTPUT_TOPIC

Produce (default: vnet-dev):

kt produce TEST_OUTPUT_TOPIC '{ "name": "test-name", "role": "ops" }'

Produce from a json file:

kt produce TEST_OUTPUT_TOPIC "$(cat ./test.json)"

Consume for production environment:

kt consume TEST_OUTPUT_TOPIC -e vnet-prd

Consume specific partition and offset (passing 0 and 0 will read partition 0 from the beginning):

kt consume MY_COMPACTED_TOPIC -o 0 -p 0

More informations:

kt help