The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.15.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.
This is a critical feature release, fast-tracked to address a key resilience issue for our users.
Improved Bootstrap Resilience and Load Distribution:
Previously, when presented with a list of bootstrapServers, the proxy would only ever attempt to bootstrap connections using the first address in the list. This concentrated the bootstrapping load and created a single point of failure. See #1870.
To improve resilience, we have changed the default behaviour to round-robin over the supplied bootstrapServers each time the proxy receives a new connection from a client. This spreads the load and protects against an extended outage of the primary bootstrap address. For more control, you can now configure the selection strategy to be either round-robin or random. See the documentation for an example configuration.
Big thank you to The-East-Wind and opan for contributing towards the solution.
New Quickstart Guide: Record Encryption on Kubernetes: Looking for an encryption-at-rest solution for data stored in your Apache Kafka? We’ve got you covered!
This release includes a brand-new quickstart guide that will show you how to implement record encryption on Kubernetes from scratch, with no external dependencies. You’ll be encrypting in a snap!
Please let us know, through Slack, GitHub or even bsky), if you find the project interesting or helpful and especially if you have deployed it in production.