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