ansible-kafka-notify

This Ansible module produces notifications to a Kafka platform.

Use Cases

This project was started to address the following use cases

• Reduce the number of notifications sent my Ansible, single message sent, multiple consumers
• Trigger processes on external automation / orchestration platforms
• Reduce notification complexity within Ansible by decoupling the consumers

Requirements

This module requires the following Python modules

• kafka-python

TODO

• Support for different encodings
  • Avro
  • JSON
  • Protobuff
• Support Schema validation
• Create tests