salt.returners.kafka_return

Return data to a Kafka topic

maintainer

Christer Edwards (christer.edwards@gmail.com)

maturity

0.1

depends

kafka-python

platform

all

To enable this returner install kafka-python and enable the following settings in the minion config:

returner.kafka.hostnames:
  • "server1"

  • "server2"

  • "server3"

returner.kafka.topic: 'topic'

To use the kafka returner, append '--return kafka' to the Salt command, eg;

salt '*' test.ping --return kafka

salt.returners.kafka_return.returner(ret)

Return information to a Kafka server