This is something that perhaps someone else can comment on; I haven't played Kafka Streams yet. That said, your Kafka Streams application would need to shut down gracefully, whether you want to shut it down via Ctrl-C or use systemd :-).
-Akshat On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Phillip Mann <pm...@trulia.com> wrote: > Hi Akshat, > > > > Do you know if a Kafka Streams apps can gracefully handle SIGTERM or do we > have to implement it similarly to here: > https://metabroadcast.com/blog/stop-your-spark-streaming-application-gracefully > > > > Thanks again for your help. > > > > Phillip > > > > *From: *Akshat Aranya <aara...@gmail.com> > *Date: *Monday, July 18, 2016 at 10:12 AM > *To: *"users@kafka.apache.org" <users@kafka.apache.org> > *Cc: *Phillip Mann <pm...@trulia.com> > *Subject: *Re: Deploying Kafka Streams to production (Ubuntu 16.04 / > systemd) > > > > Hi Phillip, > > In general, it is trivial to take an existing java -jar command and > systemd-ify it. All you need to do is to run it as an ExecStart in the > foreground in the systemd unit file, possibly with a User setting. > Something like this should work: > > [Unit] > Description=My stream app > > [Service] > User=unprivileged_user > Restart=always > ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar ... > > [Install] > WantedBy=multi-user.target > > systemd will send a SIGTERM to the java process by default when you invoke > systemctl stop. As a bonus, you also get log management of stdout/stderr > via journald. > > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Phillip Mann <pm...@trulia.com> wrote: > > Hello Guozhang, > > Thanks for your reply. I am interested in systemd because that is the > primary method for the environment we are working with (AWC EC2 Ubuntu > 16.04 / systemd) at my company and on this project. If there is no way to > deploy with systemd, then we can explore alternatives. Hopefully there is > a way to do so with systemd ☺. Thanks again for your help! > > Phillip > > Hello Phillip, > > Thanks for your question. We are indeed working on write some guidance in > docs / blogs about how to deploy a written Kafka Streams app code with > different tools / frameworks. Are you particularly interested in systemd > because you are using it in your company, or are you interested in general > and OK with certain popular tools like YARN / Mesos / Chef / etc? > > > Guozhang > > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Phillip Mann <pm...@trulia.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > There is currently no documentation how to deploy Kafka Streams to > > production. We have built a cool Kafka Streams application and we wish > to > > make it a part of our production system. At the moment, we currently run > > the Kafka streaming application with the java –jar command and we stop > the > > process with the kill command (ctrl-c). Obviously, this is not how we > > should deploy this application to production ☺. I have searched and > > searched and found no documentation, blog, question, anything about how > to > > deploy a Kafka Streams jar to production. In the interest of this > thread, > > I am specifically interested in deploying our Kafka Streams app to Ubuntu > > 16.04 and use systemd to start, stop, and if possible check the status of > > the JVM process itself. It would be something similar to how Spring Boot > > works ( > > > http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/deployment-install.html > ) > > with Systemd. Please let me know what options are available for Kafka > > Streams deployment and if systemd is possible. Thanks for your help and > > great job on Kafka Streams! > > > > Phillip > > > > > -- > -- Guozhang > > >