Back end

This project is responsible for the back end part of the application. It's a .NET web API.

This project is responsible for

Acting as a proxy for producing messages to an Apache Kafka cluster
Storing and retrieving message data schemas

Dependencies

Apache Kafka cluster
MySQL database (initialized by FluentMigrator on startup)
Front end (for CORS)

Local development

Take a look at infra/dev-stack.yml. Start up this stack to get everything you need for local development.

Use dotnet run --project KafkaFaker.BE.Api to start the project locally. You can access swagger at http://localhost:5000/swagger.

Configuration

Environment variables
- BootstrapServers sets the Apache Kafka bootstrap servers used by the kafka client. Specify your brokers here.
- ConnectionStrings__SchemaDatabase sets the connection string for the schema database
- Any other ASP.NET Core environment variables