quix pipeline up is an easy way to get a Kafka instance. It also gives you a really nice GUI to work with, but that's not obvious unless you know to look for it.
If we added these lines into quix status and quix pipeline status (see #44), then it would be easier to discover:
$ quix status
✓ Logged in
User: kris.jenkins@clearercode.com (Kris Jenkins)
Organization: Kris Jenkins (krisjenkins)
Current context: default (https://portal-api.platform.quix.io)
Default environment: ! Not set
Sdk Broker configuration: Local (localhost:19092)
✓ Local Pipeline Status: Running (1/1)
✓ Local Broker Status: Running (localhost:19092)
✓ Local GUI Status: Running (localhost:8080) <--- Let's add this!
✓ Docker installed
✓ Git installed
Git Root: .../simple-kafka-python
! VS Code not installed
! PyCharm not installed
$ quix pipeline status
Local Pipeline Status: ✓ Running (2/2)
Local Broker Status: Running (localhost:19092) <--- Let's add this!
Local GUI Status: Running (localhost:8080) <--- Let's add this!
console ✓ Up 5 minutes
kafka-broker ✓ Up 5 minutes
quix pipeline up
is an easy way to get a Kafka instance. It also gives you a really nice GUI to work with, but that's not obvious unless you know to look for it.If we added these lines into
quix status
andquix pipeline status
(see #44), then it would be easier to discover: