kafka-fastapi-docker

A FastAPI and Apache Kafka project built in a Docker container

💻 Requirements

First of all, you need to configure your enviroment:

• Python 3.9 installed
• Pip 3 installed
• Java 8 installed
• Docker installed
• Docker-compose installed

📫 Pull or clone the kafka-fastapi-docker

1. git init
2. git remote add origin https://github.com/harlemmuniz/kafka-fastapi-docker.git
3. git pull origin main

or

1. git init
2. git clone https://github.com/harlemmuniz/kafka-fastapi-docker.git

🚀 Installing and configuringkafka-fastapi-docker

Installing Kafka and Kafdrop using docker compose in project/kafka folder:

cd /path/to/root/project/kafka

docker-compose up -d

Installing a Python virtual environment:

pip3 install virtualenv

Creating a Python virtual environment in the project root folder:

cd /path/to/root/project

virtualenv env

Activating the virtual environment:

source env/bin/activate

Installing the required libraries:

pip3 install fastapi aiokafka uvicorn

Starting the application (You should not use --reload in production.):

uvicorn main:app --reload

If you want to run the project in Google Cloud, you will need to install the gunicorn:

pip3 install gunicorn