Ansible - KAFKA Integration

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Hello,

I understand we can install/deploy KAFKA using Ansible (Playbook). I am not sure if Ansible can be used as a PULL mechanism for fetching KAFKA (Consumer) Topic on quick interval like every 15 mins.

Thanks,
Madhan

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This is an extremely interesting question. Although ansible is designed to work in push mode, would be possible to push the payload to a queue so an ansible agent subscribed to that queue can fetch that later on?

Thanks,

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There is ansible-pull command if your concern is about pull strategy
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.html

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Yes and No,

AFAIK ansible-pull works by pointing out to a vcs repo where playbooks exist. I was thinking on something slightly different, instead of pulling playbooks so they can be applied locally, pulling the payload that is sent from a controller machine to a queue. Does that make sense?